Maya Angelou Quotes About Failing

• It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Reality, Giving, Failing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

• We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Defeated You, Challenges

• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Courage, Powerful

• If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Reality, Blessing

• I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

  Maya Angelou

  Air, Giving, Needs

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.253, Random House

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