You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.
Quote by Maya Angelou
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You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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Maya Angelou Quotes
- There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
- History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
- When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
- There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
- I know why the caged bird sings.
- You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.
- For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
- Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Best Quotes
- The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.
- They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
- Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
- I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved.
- Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
- People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
- Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
- My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.
- Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.