Maya Angelou Courage Quotations

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.

i believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare

Courage allows the successful woman to fail-and learn powerful lessons-from the failure-so that in the end,she didn't fail at all.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

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.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

Have enough courage to love.

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.

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.