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
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell… — 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
I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how… — 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
