"You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently……" — Maya Angelou
"You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage."
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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou has 760 quotes on this site.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there…
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I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the…
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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
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Trust is built with consistency.
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There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well,…
— Hillary Clinton
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue…
— Maya Angelou
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
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It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually…
— Italo Calvino
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Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
— John Stuart Mill
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own…
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