You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you’ve chosen the wisest thing go out and try… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage allows the successful woman to fail- and learn powerful lessons- from the failure- so that in the end, she didn't fail… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage, and it says, 'Yes I can,' ... Yes, we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Having courage does not mean we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
