Maya Angelou on courage

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle384–322 BC

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act II, scene ii.In context

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.