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Maya Angelou Quotes

«All great achievements require time.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Achievement | Keywords: achievements, require
«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.»
«The honorary duty of a human being is to love.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | Keywords: duty, honorary, human being
«The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Thought | Keywords: cry, in the main, main, much as, private
«I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | Keywords: a lot, laugh, serious, So I, trust
«Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift.»
«Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.»
«Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.»
«Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.»
«Courage allows the successful woman to fail-and learn powerful lessons-from the failure-so that in the end,she didn't fail at all.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Courage, Women | Keywords: at all, fail, lessons, powerful, successful

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