Quotes from Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
- Maya Angelou
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
- Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
- Maya Angelou
We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.
- Maya Angelou
Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'
- Maya Angelou
She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
- Maya Angelou
You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
- Maya Angelou
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
- Maya Angelou
At our best, we're all teachers
- Maya Angelou
You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for
- Maya Angelou
Life sometimes gives you a second chance.
- Maya Angelou
The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.
- Maya Angelou