"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

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"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Strength, Belief, Self-Confidence, Mindset

"The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength."

Robert Shea, American Author

Strength, Heroes, Key, Tragedy

"A conviction borne of God amply possesses the potency and power to brazenly reach beyond the possible in order to topple the impossible."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Strength, Conviction, Faith, Truth, Power

"Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You're doing just fine."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

Strength, Peace, Healing, Hope, Resilience

"Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character."

Tony Robbins, American Author

Strength, Character, Difficulty

"I should need to be a herd of elephants, I thought, and a wilderness of spiders, desperately referring to the animals that are reputed longest lived and most multitudinously eyed, to cope with all of this."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Strength, Animals, Survival, Endurance

"Merciful Heavens! but what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws and the fact that twice two makes four? Of course I cannot break through the wall by battering my head against it if I really have not the strength to knock it down, but I am not going to be reconciled to it simply because it is a stone wall and I have not the strength."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Strength, Limit, Resistance, Will

"The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Strength, Criticism, Lies, Weakness

"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Strength, Firmness, Mercy

"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Strength, Control, Enemies

Explore more quotes by Maya Angelou

"It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody."

Forgiveness

"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"

Forgiveness

"Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses."

Gratitude

"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."

Awareness

"The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?"

Morality

"You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise."

Perseverance

"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."

Self-Growth

"We need much less than we think we need."

Simplicity

"The"b word and the "n word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison."

Words

"All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike."

Art