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.

Create free wallpaper (Make a wallpaper or screensaver out of this quote with your image)

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. - Maya Angelou

---

Related Authors
Friedrich Nietzsche | Henry David Thoreau | Yukio Mishima | Walter Scott | Alphonse de Lamartine | Emily Bronte | Daniel Webster | Alice Munro |

Related Quotes

Ignorance on any subject steers you towards popular acceptance. Greatness however thirsts for an educated opinion.

Pompi

Ignorance Subject Greatness Educated opinion

---

Write your DREAMS down in caps lock, so when you read it, it’s loud.

Reekado Banks

Write Your dream Caps lock Read it

---

Law 8: Make other people come to you - use bait if necessary

Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power)

Bait Necessary People

---

The best way to live is to live like there is no tomorrow.

Uche Okafor

Best Live Tomorrow Like

---

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

Colonel Sanders

One Remember Failure Stepping stone

---

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

Meister Eckhart

Relation Essence Everything Exists

---

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

Maxwell Maltz

Find Yourself Search

---

Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

Vernon Howard

Acceptance Awaits Compromises Invites

---

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

Mike Bloomberg

Buy Deliverable

---

If you no get money, no hide your face. Show your face make somebody help you

Chinedu Ikedieze

Money Face Help you Show

---

Man wey dey naked no dey put hand for pocket.

Pidgin Sayings

Man Naked Dey Pocket

---

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

Zoroaster

Grain Higher Hungry People

---

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. - Zoroaster quotes