Maya Angelou quotes about courage

I rise

I will not deign to die.

I never learned to spell it.

But getting up stays on my mind

Don’t bring me no rocking chair.

I never heard them holler ’cause the work was hard.

I’m stepping out on Your word.

Willie was a man without fame

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

The birth of my son caused me to develop enough courage to invent my life.

Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.

Their responses confirmed my belief that courage is the most important of all the virtues.

I commend lovers, I am en-heartened by lovers, I am encouraged by their courage and inspired by their passion.

For what could stand against me, since one person, with God, constitutes the majority?

We need to have the courage to say obesity is not funny and vulgarity is not amusing.

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.

The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.

I looked up the road I was going and back the way I come, and since I wasn’t satisfied, I decided to step off the road and cut me a new path.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things, I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything.

For what could stand against me with God, since one person, any person with God, constitutes the majority?