Maya Angelou Quotes, Encouraging Quotes, Courage Quotes

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

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If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

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I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

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I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."

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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

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Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

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Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

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Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

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The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

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The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

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To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

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There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

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No one has ever become poor from giving.

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I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are.

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The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.

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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

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Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.

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