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Maya Angelou Quotes & Sayings

But people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

People will forget what you said
People will forget what you did

- Maya Angelou

The needs of a society determine its ethics.
- Maya Angelou

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

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
- Maya Angelou

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
- Maya Angelou

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
- Maya Angelou

It is possible and imperative that we discover
A brave and startling truth.
- Maya Angelou

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
- Maya Angelou

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou