Maya Angelou Quotes About Effort

• Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Effort, Might

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Thinking, Clouds

  Maya Angelou (2010). “Letter To My Daughter”, p.7, Hachette UK

• In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

  Maya Angelou

  Disappointment, Winning, Order

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.34, Bantam

• Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.

  Maya Angelou

  Party, Safety, Effort

  1976 Singin'and Swingin'and Getting Merry Like Christmas, ch.9.

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