Maya Angelou Quotes About Running

• The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Running

• We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Strong Women, Rose

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

• I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Rose, World

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• I love a statement by the apostle Paul, in the Book of Philippians in the Bible. I think the Corinthians had been writing to Paul, telling him that old men were chasing young women, nobody was tithing - and all that must have run Paul crazy. He wrote back and said, "If there be anything of good report, speak of these things." That's one of my principles.It's another discipline that I encourage myself to employ - to, as much as possible, say the courteous thing, and then be it.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Crazy, Book

  Source: www.oprah.com

• Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Writing, Thinking

• Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Running, Book

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

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Running, Courage

  "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

• Every journey begins with a single step.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Journey, Hiking

• What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Jobs, Husband

• I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Writing, Ties

• Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Humility, Thinking

• I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, May, Want

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

• There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Feet, Black

  1973 Television interview, 2 1Nov. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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