"I have enough of life in me..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are.
More by Maya Angelou
“Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.”
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
“In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.”
More on Courage
“It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.”
“Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.”
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
More on Self Worth
“No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.”
“Let nobody bribe you away from being yourself.”
“If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.”