One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when… — 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
The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't… — 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
When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that… — 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
I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I… — 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
I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. — 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
Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody,… — 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
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
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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 Image
