If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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Maya AngelouA Brave and Startling Truth (1995)
About Maya Angelou
American poet and memoirist, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. (1928-2014)
More from Maya Angelou
- Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014)
- My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.Facebook post (July 4, 2011)
- You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.Letter to My Daughter (2009)
- Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.Interview in USA Today (March 5, 1988)
- You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.1982 interview, in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)
- Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
More quotes on courage
- We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.Theodore Roosevelt
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.Eleanor Roosevelt
- You must do the thing you think you cannot do.Eleanor Roosevelt
- The purpose of life... is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.Eleanor Roosevelt
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.John F. Kennedy
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