Maya Angelou

One isn’t born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

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

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

Maya Angelou

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Maya Angelou

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

Maya Angelou

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

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

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn’t going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

Maya Angelou

Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

Maya Angelou

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

Maya Angelou