Maya Angelou Quotes About Virtue

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  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

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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

• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 08, 2009

• Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Years, Live Your Life

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2016

• Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you. So try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
  Take up the battle. Take it up.
  It’s yours. This is your life.
  This is your world.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Years, Giving

• When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

  Maya Angelou

  Hope, Honesty, Integrity

• Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Bravery

  USA Today, March 5, 1988.

• Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

  Maya Angelou

  Practice, Acorns, Virtue

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

• I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

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

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Aries

  "Diversity : Leaders Not Labels" by Stedman Graham, (p. 224), 2006.

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

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Remember You

  "Diversity : Leaders Not Labels" by Stedman Graham, (p. 224), 2006.

• I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

  Maya Angelou

  Practice, Important, Be Kind

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Tree

• Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Intelligent, Two

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

• Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

  Maya Angelou

  Encouragement, Home, Trying

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

• I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Modesty, Virtue

  "Maya Angelou on Integrity", www.achievement.org.

• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

  Maya Angelou

  Practice, Important, Virtue

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