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Quotes About Courage

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
~ Maya Angelou
Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.
~ Maya Angelou
I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.
~ Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
~ Maya Angelou
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
~ Maya Angelou
You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.
~ Maya Angelou
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.
~ Maya Angelou
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
~ Maya Angelou
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
~ Maya Angelou
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
~ Maya Angelou
You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.
~ Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
~ Maya Angelou
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
~ Maya Angelou
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
~ Maya Angelou
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
~ Maya Angelou
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
~ Maya Angelou
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
~ Maya Angelou
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!
~ Maya Angelou
Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.
~ Maya Banks
If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
~ Maya Lin
Anger will give you strength, where fear will make you weak.
~ Unknown
Fear drove people to do things they'd never imagine themselves capable of just to avoid it.
~ Unknown
Sometimes you have to risk something to get something out of something.
~ Unknown
I felt the problem was that no one in the family had learned to stand up to Uncle Harry's bullying. He was considered the clever one, the successful businessman and he had the most money, which intimidated my grandparents into thinking he was something they should be proud of.
~ Unknown