Maya Angelou

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

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Still, I’ll rise.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear.

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

We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

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

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.