NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1354

 

• ·       “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

  ·       “If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?” – Maya Angelou

  ·       “When you know you are of worth—not asking it but knowing it—you walk into a room with a particular power.” – Maya Angelou

  ·       “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.” – Maya Angelou

  ·       “I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: if somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.” – Maya Angelou

  ·       “My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.” – Maya Angelou

  ·       “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, ‘Can I be of help?'” – Maya Angelou

  ·       “Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.” – Maya Angelou