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 a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
- There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
- Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
- How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
- If someone tells you who they are, believe them.
- There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.
- I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Best Quotes
- When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
- The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
- My business is to prevent the future.
- I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
- I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
- Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.