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 greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
- 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.
- I know why the caged bird sings.
- If someone tells you who they are, believe them.
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- 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.
- The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
- Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
- We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Best Quotes
- The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
- Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
- Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
- I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record.
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
- The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.
- My nature just changes.
- Natural history is not about producing fables.