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62 Motivational Quotes By Walter Dean Myers That Will Keep You Going

Famous As: Writer

Born On: 1937

Died On: 2014

Born In: Martinsburg

Died At Age: 76

Walter Dean Myers was a prominent American writer who considered young minds to be his true audience and specialized in writing books for children and young adults. His schooling started at around the age of six, and he dropped out from the senior school at seventeen. His schooling days were difficult, owing to his speech impairment. He understood that he had to be intellectual if he were to have a bright future. But having a dysfunctional family and poverty meant that he had to drop out from school and earn. He joined the army at 17, but did not stop writing. He was discharged after four years in the army, and earned a graduation from ‘Empire State College’, in arts. His first book was, ‘Where Does the Day go’, a picture book for kids. After this, he published more than 110 acclaimed titles. The following quotations and thoughts by the distinguished writer which have been extracted from the vast sea of his work will give you a glimpse of his creative mind. Read on the compilation of quotes and sayings by Walter Dean Myers that will teach you how to win against all odds.

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Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
Life
Walter Dean Myers

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken
Life
Walter Dean Myers

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.
You Women
Walter Dean Myers

Reading is not optional.
Walter Dean Myers

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.
Walter Dean Myers

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.
You Think Time Will I
Walter Dean Myers

My life is not packaged,
Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged
Edges that cut even my friends.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.
Life Friends
Walter Dean Myers

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.
You Yourself I
Walter Dean Myers

The beast is the monster that destroys your dream

The beast is the monster that destroys your dream
Walter Dean Myers

If anyone could look into my head
See or feel the dread that has captured
Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain
They would only turn away
Turn away.

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.
Me
Walter Dean Myers

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.
Time
Walter Dean Myers

He was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

He was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.
Trying
Walter Dean Myers

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.
You
Walter Dean Myers

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.
Life I
Walter Dean Myers

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.
Love Think
Walter Dean Myers

How deep is your game?
Walter Dean Myers

On the streets of the city
They have taken my Who-I-Am
As well as my What-I-Was
And now I am desperate for them both
Again

On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again
I
Walter Dean Myers

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.
You Like
Walter Dean Myers

But now, like a fallen sparrow
On a golden chain,
I'm forever bound in shadow,
A prisoner to my pain.

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.
Like
Walter Dean Myers

I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that?

I just wanted to be a human being. I just wanted to be whoever I saw in the mirror, without a race or a place in life. What is so wrong with that?
Life I
Walter Dean Myers

We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.

We lie to ourselves here. Maybe we are here because we lie to ourselves.
Walter Dean Myers

Can you become
The hope I need? Can you help me be
More than it is written in my future
Or past? Is there another me to find?

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?
You Me Future Past Hope Need I
Walter Dean Myers

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.'

—Fletch

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch
You Life
Walter Dean Myers

Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.
You Me Like Need
Walter Dean Myers

Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.

Hard work by itself isn't worth two cents on a rainy day if it doesn't give you a good life.
You Life
Walter Dean Myers

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.
Walter Dean Myers

She is the only rose that doesn’t smell of plastic

She is the only rose that doesn’t smell of plastic
Walter Dean Myers

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
I
Walter Dean Myers

That's the thing people can't see when they're explaining to your butt what's going on and how you messing up. They can't see that you knew it long before they did.

That's the thing people can't see when they're explaining to your butt what's going on and how you messing up. They can't see that you knew it long before they did.
You
Walter Dean Myers