Maya Angelou Quotes
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1. I’ve had rainbows in my clouds. Maya Angelou
2. Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou
3. Faith is the evidence of the unseen. Maya Angelou
4. I note the obvious differences between each sort and type.
5. I hope you always find a reason to smile. Maya Angelou
6. All great achievements require time. Maya Angelou
7. Live as though life was created for you. Maya Angelou
8. When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou
9. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Maya Angelou
10. Give yourself time just to be with yourself. Maya Angelou
11. Living well is an art which can be developed. Maya Angelou
12. I believe that every person is born with talent. Maya Angelou
13. Success is loving life and daring to live it. Maya Angelou
14. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. Maya Angelou
15. I created myself. I have taught myself so much. Maya Angelou
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16. Let nothing dim the light that shines from within. Maya Angelou
17. We begin to stop in order simply to begin again. Maya Angelou
18. Their faces shone with the delight of their souls. Maya Angelou
19. In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou
20. You can’t get too high for somebody to bring you down. Maya Angelou
21. We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance. Maya Angelou
22. The only way out of something is all the way through it. Maya Angelou
23. Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me. Maya Angelou
24. This a a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before. Maya Angelou
25. I like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them. Maya Angelou
26. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Maya Angelou
27. You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. Maya Angelou
28. I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes. Maya Angelou
29. This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. Maya Angelou
30. All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market. Maya Angelou
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31. I did then what I knew best, when I knew better, I did better. Maya Angelou
32. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. Maya Angelou
33. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. Maya Angelou
34. It’s hard to make the prettiest clothes fit a miserable man. Maya Angelou
35. Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. Maya Angelou
36. At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself. Maya Angelou
37. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind. Maya Angelou
38. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou
39. The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. Maya Angelou
40. Always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. Maya Angelou
41. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. Maya Angelou
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42. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou
43. I learned that a friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. Maya Angelou
44. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Maya Angelou
45. There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. Maya Angelou
46. I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all. Maya Angelou
47. If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. Maya Angelou
48. There is a true yearning to respond to the singing river and wise rock. Maya Angelou
49. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou
50. I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. Maya Angelou
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51. Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it. Maya Angelou
52. If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? Maya Angelou
53. It was a little light, but she aimed it directly at the gloom of ignorance. Maya Angelou
54. I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. Maya Angelou
55. I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. Maya Angelou
56. A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Maya Angelou
57. I refuse to allow any manmade differences to separate me from any other human beings. Maya Angelou
58. I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love. Maya Angelou
59. Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it. Maya Angelou
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60. Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. Maya Angelou
61. I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou
62. Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’ Maya Angelou
63. If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou
64. The wise woman thinks twice and speaks once or, better yet, does not speak at all. Maya Angelou
65. Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. Maya Angelou
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66. Do the best you can do till you know better. Then, when you know better, do better. Maya Angelou
67. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou
68. Believe people when they tell you who they are. They know themselves better than you. Maya Angelou
69. I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss. Maya Angelou
67. I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people. Maya Angelou
68. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. Maya Angelou
69. If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased. Maya Angelou
70. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
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71. No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance. Maya Angelou
72. A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim. Maya Angelou
73. In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou
74. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Maya Angelou
75. Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you. Maya Angelou
76. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. Maya Angelou
77. Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. Maya Angelou
78. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou
79. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Maya Angelou
80. I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou quotes about life, love, and success
81. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. Maya Angelou
82. I’m happy…I laugh as much as I can and cry when I have to, without apology. I think that’s happy. Maya Angelou
83. I had to trust life, since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. Maya Angelou
84. I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings. Maya Angelou
85. On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other. Maya Angelou
86. Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself. Maya Angelou
87. I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings. Maya Angelou
88. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou
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89. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou
90. Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible. Maya Angelou
91. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou
92. You don’t need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it. Maya Angelou
93. I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. Maya Angelou
94. We must insist that the men and women who expect to lead us recognize the true desires of those who are being led. Maya Angelou
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95. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. Maya Angelou
96. I love the song ‘I Hope You Dance’ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it. Maya Angelou
97. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place. Maya Angelou
98. I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being. Maya Angelou
99. Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. Maya Angelou
100. The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement. Maya Angelou
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101. Peace means when there is conflict, use our common sense and our compassion to consider rest of humanity, our human brothers and sisters.
102. Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls. Maya Angelou
103. Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one would have thought it to be. Maya Angelou
104. I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. Maya Angelou
105. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou
106. In all my work, I try to say, ‘You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?’ Maya Angelou
107. All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou
108. Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight. Maya Angelou
109. I looked up the way I was going and back the way I come and since I wasn’t satisfied I stepped off and [found] me a new path. Maya Angelou
110. Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hardboiled egg. Maya Angelou
111. It is a nofail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it. Maya Angelou
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112. We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike. Maya Angelou
113. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. Maya Angelou
114. There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Maya Angelou
115. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. Maya Angelou
116. Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage, you cannot practice any of the other virtues consistently. Maya Angelou
117. My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine. Maya Angelou
118. Take as much time as you need to make up your mind, but once it is made up, step out on your decision like it’s something you want. Maya Angelou
119. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou
120. I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. Maya Angelou
121. They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you. Maya Angelou
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122. It’s hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody. Maya Angelou
123. There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know. Maya Angelou
124. Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that if you dare. But get older because it’s fun! Maya Angelou
125. My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still. Maya Angelou
126. Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of. Maya Angelou
127. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou
128. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou
129. Courage you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100pound weight without preparing yourself. Maya Angelou
130. My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked, a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. Maya Angelou
131. Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it. Maya Angelou
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132. Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good. Maya Angelou
133. While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation. Maya Angelou
134. Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift. Maya Angelou
135. If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully. Maya Angelou
136. There is nothing a person can’t do, and there should be nothing a human being didn’t care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for. Maya Angelou
137. Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible…We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou
138. If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first. Maya Angelou
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139. Human beings are like some plants. If we pause a few seconds in our journey, we begin setting down roots, tendrils that entangle other people as we ourselves are entangled. Maya Angelou
140. I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. Maya Angelou
141. You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘ Maya Angelou
142. I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard. Maya Angelou
143. I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true. Maya Angelou
144. Your reputation is the most important thing you’ll ever have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world. Maya Angelou
145. All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated. Maya Angelou
146. 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
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147. Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Maya Angelou
148. You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. Maya Angelou
149. I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good. Maya Angelou
150. One does not have to tell all that one knows, but we should be careful what we say is the truth. Maya Angelou
