Famous Quotes

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

Maya Angelou on Courage

More quotes about Courage

• "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

  Steve Jobs on Courage

• "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Courage

• "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

  Nelson Mandela on Courage

• "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

  Winston Churchill on Courage

• "There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."

  Ronald Reagan on Courage

More quotes by Maya Angelou

• "We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."

• "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

• "It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."