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
It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing… — 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
