One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world’s variety and uniqueness. – Maya Angelou Quotes
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. – Maya Angelou Quotes
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.
INSPIRATIONAL, BEAUTIFUL AND UPLIFTING MAYA ANGELOU QUOTES
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.
To develop courage you have to start developing courage as you do any other muscle. You have to start with small things and build it up.
Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you… yet, someone survived… You can do anything you choose to do.
I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou Quotes
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born – it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, ‘Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.’ That’s one thing I’m learning.
MOST FAMOUS MAYA ANGELOU QUOTES
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 object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.
When you get give. When you learn teach.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
We need to not be in denial about what we’ve done, what we’ve come through. It will help us if we all do that.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.
When you get give. When you learn teach.
I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
BEST MAYA ANGELOU QUOTES
I’m really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
If one has courage, nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
If one has courage, nothing can dim the light which shines from within. Click to tweet
Look what you’ve already come through! Don’t deny it. You’ve already come through some things, which are very painful. If you’ve been alive until you’re 35, you have gone through some pain. It cost you something. And you’ve come through it. So at least look at that. And have a sense to look at yourself and say, “Well, wait a minute. I’m stronger than I thought I was.
When you know you are of worth — not asking it but knowing it — you walk into a room with a particular power. – Maya Angelou Quotes
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been.
Inspirational Quotes
On what she feels about the world today: I feel very hopeful, very expectant. I’m looking forward to it.
When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. – Maya Angelou Quotes
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
You only are free when you realize you belong no place – you belong every place – no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.
My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.
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