Maya Angelou quotes about courage

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

I will step out on the word of God.

It is imperative that a woman keep her sense of humor intact and at the ready.

Each of us must care enough for ourselves to be ready and able to come to our own self-defense.

The judicious response to a gibe can disarm the rude person, removing the power to injure.

We should pluck up the courage to win, to win back our finer and kinder and healthier selves.

It seems easier to lie prone than to press against the law of gravity and raise the body onto its feet and persist in remaining vertical.

If the emperor is standing in my living room stripped to the buff, nothing should prevent me from saying that since he has no clothes on, he is not ready for public congress.

See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

hoped for the best, was prepared for the worst, so anything in between didn't come as a surprise.

She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

Can't do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.

nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got.

Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

Sympathy is next to shit in the dictionary, and I can't even read.