Maya Angelou Quotes About Courage
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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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 can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.
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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
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Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
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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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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There is so much we can draw understanding from. One of the lessons is the development of courage. Because without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently.
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
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Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
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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.
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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 with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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