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950 Inspirational Maya Angelou Quotes On Leadership (2023)

1. "Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou


2. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ― Maya Angelou


3. “The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. ”


4. “I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources.”


5. “Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.”


6. “And still I rise.” – Maya Angelou


7. “A Woman in harmony with her spirit


8. “She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.”


9. ​"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou


10. “If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.” – Maya Angelou


11. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou


12. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.


13. “I was liked, and what a difference it made.”


14. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou


15. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.”


16. “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


17. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”― Maya Angelou


18. “If you are always trying to be normal. you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Dr. Maya Angelou


19. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” — Maya Angelou


20. “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.”- Maya Angelou


21. Maya Angelou, poet and author: “They may forget your name, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”


22. “That child would stumble over the pattern in a rug.”


23. “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”


24. “I’m grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.” – Maya Angelou, Poet


25. “Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage means we face our fears.”


26. “It's in the click of my heels,


27. “The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. ” —Maya Angelou


28. “If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”


29. “My obsession with pineapples nearly drove me mad. I dreamt of the days when I would be grown and able to buy a whole carton for myself alone. Although”


30. “The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.”


31. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” –Maya Angelou


32. “There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”


33. “Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware.”


34. “Can't Do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.”


35. “The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,


36. “Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N.”


37. “The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”


38. “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou


39. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”


40. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” – Maya Angelou


41. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” Maya Angelou


42. “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


43. “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


44. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” ~ Maya Angelou


45. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” – Maya Angelou


46. In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou


47. “If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do?”


48. “My mother shed her protective love down around me and without knowing why people sensed that I had value.” Maya Angelou


49. “You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou


50. Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. Maya Angelou, Celebrations


51. 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.


52. “If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”


53. “I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”


54. “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”


55. “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


56. “We love and lose in China,


57. “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” —Maya Angelou


58. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou


59. “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”


60. “Grief works its way on people differently. Some sulk, or become morose, or weep and scream a vengeance at the gods.”


61. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive. – Maya Angelou


62. “Equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.” – Maya Angelou


63. “When you know better you do better.”


64. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou


65. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”― Maya Angelou


66. I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.- Maya Angelou


67. “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ From intro to movie: "Spinning Into Butter”


68. “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”


69. “If they want to learn how to live life right they ought to study me on Saturday night.” — Maya Angelou


70. 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.


71. “If I am not good to myself. how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?” - Maya Angelou


72. “We, unaccustomed to courage


73. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” Maya Angelou


74. This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. Maya Angelou


75. “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”


76. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou


77. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. — Maya Angelou


78. “Nothing will work unless you do,”- Maya Angelou


79. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”


80. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” - Maya Angelou


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


82. “Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.” -Maya Angelou


83. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ―Maya Angelou, American poet, singer, and civil rights activist


84. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” —Maya Angelou


85. “You may cut me with your eyes / You may kill me with your hatefulness / But still. like air. I’ll rise.” — Maya Angelou. “Still I Rise”


86. “I would like to be known as an intelligent woman. a courageous woman. a loving woman. a woman who teaches by being.” – Maya Angelou


87. “You said to lean on your arm


88. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou


89. “I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”


90. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”


91. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou


92. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.” —Maya Angelou


93. “A certain person wondered why


94. “And still I rise.” — Maya Angelou


95. “Never let white folks know what you really think. If you’re sad, laugh. If you’re bleeding inside, dance.”


96. “If you're always trying to be normal you'll never know how amazing you can be.”


97. “Nothing will work unless you do.” ―Maya Angelou


98. “No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.” – Maya Angelou


99. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.” – Maya Angelou


100. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”—Maya Angelou


101. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.


102. “I am a woman. phenomenally. Phenomenal woman. that’s me.” – Maya Angelou.


103. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”— Maya Angelou


104. “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou


105. The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.


106. “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” Maya Angelou


107. “Hadn't I, always, but ever and ever, thought that life was just one great risk for the living?”


108. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” – Maya Angelou


109. "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


110. “We need much less than we think we need.” Maya Angelou


111. “Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.”


112. “We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.”


113. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”


114. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. – Maya Angelou


115. “There are some nights when


116. “Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.”


117. “If you’re always trying to be normal. you’ll never know how amazing you can be.” — Maya Angelou


118. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” ​– Maya Angelou


119. “We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.” – Maya Angelou, American poet, singer, and civil rights activist


120. “Cotton rows crisscross the world


121. Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” ― Maya Angelou


122. “The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.”


123. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”— Maya Angelou


124. “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


125. “Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.”


126. “Never make someone your priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou


127. “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”


128. And still, I rise. – Maya Angelou


129. “You have no idea what your legacy will be because your legacy is every life you touch.”


130. “Exclusive” leadership is hurting your bottom line


131. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.


132. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”


133. “On this platform of peace, we can create a language


134. “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” — Maya Angelou


135. “The race of man is suffering And I can hear the moan, ‘Cause nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone.”


136. “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


137. “Comprendía la perversidad de la vida, la de que en la lucha estriba la alegría.”


138. “There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.”


139. "I am a woman phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.” — Maya Angelou


140. “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” – Maya Angelou


141. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” — Maya Angelou


142. “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.” —Maya Angelou


143. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou


144. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” ― Maya Angelou


145. “I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou


146. “As a species, we were an abomination. All of us.”


147. “Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.” – Maya Angelou


148. “If you are always trying to be normal. you will never know how amazing you can be.” - Maya Angelou


149. “Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem


150. “I have a son who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving, strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou


151. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou


152. ‘Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.’ — Maya Angelou


153. “I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”


154. “Be present in all things and thankful for all.” – Maya Angelou


155. “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.”


156. “The years may wrinkle our skin but not our spirit.” – Quote by Maya Angelou


157. In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.. . . . . Maya Angelou


158. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”


159. "You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated."— Maya Angelou


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


161. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” Maya Angelou


162. Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou


163. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” ~Maya Angelou


164. “You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.”


165. “We are missing Michael.


166. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. —Maya Angelou”


167. “If you must look back, do so forgivingly.


168. “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


169. “All I got to do is stay black and die.”


170. “Determine to live life with flair and laughter.” - Maya Angelou


171. “I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”


172. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. — Maya Angelou


173. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ― Maya Angelou


174. “This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.”—Maya Angelou


175. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou


176. “I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.” – Maya Angelou


177. “Without courage. we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind. TRUE. merciful. generous. or honest.” – Maya Angelou


178. “A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.”


179. “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


180. “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud”― Maya Angelou


181. “My name had lost its ring of familiarity and I had to be nudged to go and receive my diploma.”


182. “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


183. “I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”


184. “Achievement brings it own anticlimax.”


185. “not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.”


186. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou


187. “Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.”


188. “Those are facts, but facts, to a child, are merely words to memorize.”


189. “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” — Maya Angelou, Poet (Source: Huffington Post)


190. “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


191. “See you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing you do it without thinking.”


192. If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? – Maya Angelou


193. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou


194. “If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou


195. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”


196. “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.


197. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya Angelou


198. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. - Maya Angelou


199. “You may not control all the events that happen to you. but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou. American poet


200. “I'm young as morning


201. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ~ Maya Angelou


202. You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. – Maya Angelou


203. “To those who are given much, much is expected.”


204. I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. – Maya Angelou


205. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style. – Maya Angelou


206. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”


207. “People will forget what you said. They will forget what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou, writer, poet, and civil rights activist


208. “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”― Maya Angelou


209. “My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” – Maya Angelou


210. “I learned that a friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”


211. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it”


212. “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”


213. “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.”


214. “Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.”


215. “Astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” ― Maya Angelou


216. “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


217. “Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”


218. “LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME


219. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” — Maya Angelou


220. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ~ Maya Angelou


221. “You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.”


222. “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


223. “You do your best until you know better, then you do better.”


224. “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”


225. This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before. –Maya Angelou


226. “You can’t use up creativity. The more the you use, the more you have.” –Maya Angelou


227. “I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.” Maya Angelou


228. “You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been.”


229. All great achievements require time. — Maya Angelou


230. “You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou


231. “I have a son who is my heart. A wonderful young man, darling and loving and strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou


232. “Try to Be a Rainbow in Someone else’s Cloud” ~ Maya Angelou


233. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”


234. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou


235. “She lived life as if it had been created just for her”


236. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”


237. “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, poet


238. “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


239. “The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.”


240. “It takes courage to be kind.” — Maya Angelou ‍


241. “Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.” — Maya Angelou


242. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” — Maya Angelou


243. “I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.”


244. You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. - Maya Angelou, source unknown


245. “No,nobody but nobody can make it out her alone.”


246. “You may not control all the events that happen to you. but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou


247. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage. you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou


248. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” —Maya Angelou"


249. “Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”


250. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou


251. “Every storm runs out of rain.”


252. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!”


253. “Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.”


254. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou


255. “Don't let the man bring you down.”


256. “I am a woman phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.” – Maya Angelou


257. “the true nature of the human heart is as whimsical as spring weather. All signals may aim toward a fall of rain when suddenly the skies will clear.”


258. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” — Maya Angelou


259. 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


260. “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou


261. “Nothing will work unless you do. ” — Maya Angelou


262. “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.”


263. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” ~ Maya Angelou


264. “I have written 11 books but each time I think ‘Uh-oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.’” – Maya Angelou


265. Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. — Maya Angelou


266. “Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”


267. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”— Maya Angelou


268. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou


269. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” – Maya Angelou


270. “It was a little light, but she aimed it directly at the gloom of ignorance.”


271. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” ― Maya Angelou


272. "Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” — Maya Angelou


273. “Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”


274. “If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.”


275. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” – Maya Angelou


276. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”


277. “If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.”


278. “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


279. “Here on the pulse of this new day


280. “All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unalike.”


281. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”


282. “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.”


283. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. —Maya Angelou


284. “No matter how good or bad you think life is, wake up each day and be thankful for life. Someone somewhere else is fighting to survive.”- Maya Angelou


285. “While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.”


286. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” — Maya Angelou


287. “You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.”


288. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ―Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter


289. “In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.”


290. “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”


291. "In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.. —Maya Angelou


292. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou


293. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ­­— Maya Angelou


294. “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” ― Maya Angelou


295. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. ” – Maya Angelou


296. “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?’”


297. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” - Maya Angelou, poet and activist


298. “You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I’ve never been so strong. Now I’m where I belong.” – Maya Angelou


299. If we lose our love and self-respect and respect for each other, this is how we will finally die. — Maya Angelou


300. My mother shed her protective love down around me, and without knowing why, people sensed that I had value. – Maya Angelou


301. “If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.” ― Maya Angelou


302. To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” — Maya Angelou


303. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself”


304. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” –Maya Angelou


305. I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. –Dr. Maya Angelou


306. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone.” – Maya Angelou


307. “First we became friendly, then we became sister friends. When she finally told me I was her daughter, I knew I had found home. Sitting”


308. “Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.”


309. “If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”


310. All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.


311. “A BRAVE AND STARTLING TRUTH


312. “Can I do it? I'd rather not try and fail."


313. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” — Maya Angelou


314. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ­­—Maya Angelou, writer. Here are more Maya Angelou quotes that will uplift and inspire you.


315. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. - Maya Angelou


316. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”


317. ​​“You alone are enough. you have nothing to prove to anybody.” - Maya Angelou


318. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Maya Angelou


319. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”—Maya Angelou


320. “Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.” — Maya Angelou


321. “Before he could bring his lips together, his teeth fell, no, actually his teeth jumped, out of his mouth.”


322. “The Black woman in the South who raises sons, grandsons and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose.”


323. “I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”


324. “First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”


325. “Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.” ― Maya Angelou


326. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.


327. “If you get, give. If you learn, teach.”– Maya Angelou, poet and activist


328. “A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”


329. “People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel”


330. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou


331. “If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.” – Dr. Maya Angelou


332. “Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.”


333. “But still, like air, I’ll rise.”


334. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. ” — Maya Angelou


335. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~ Maya Angelou


336. “In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou


337. “Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.” — Maya Angelou


338. “All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.”


339. “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


340. “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”


341. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” —Maya Angelou, civil rights activist and poet


342. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou


343. “You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”


344. “I sustain myself with the love of family.” ~Maya Angelou


345. “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” -Maya Angelou


346. Nothing will work unless you do.


347. "Love liberates. It doesn't just hold—that's ego.” — Maya Angelou


348. “When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep”


349. "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou


350. “You are loved. I repeat. you are loved.” – Maya Angelou


351. “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou


352. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” -- Maya Angelou


353. "A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”—Maya Angelou


354. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”


355. “If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.”


356. “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.”– Maya Angelou


357. “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, Author and Poet


358. “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”


359. “I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.”


360. Every storm runs out of rain. - Maya Angelou.


361. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” Maya Angelou


362. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou


363. “See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.”


364. “In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.”


365. “I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.


366. When you learn, teach. When you get, give. —Maya Angelou


367. “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


368. “Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.”


369. “I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing.”


370. “Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”


371. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!


372. “All great achievements require time.” – Maya Angelou


373. “While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.”


374. “I sustain myself with the love of my family.” -Maya Angelou


375. “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. ” – Maya Angelou


376. 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


377. The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. - Maya Angelou


378. “You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.”


379. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!” ― Maya Angelou


380. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” — Maya Angelou


381. “No one can take the place of a friend, no one.”


382. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ―Maya Angelou


383. People will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou


384. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” —Maya Angelou


385. “A Friend May Be Waiting Behind A Stranger’S Face.” — Maya Angelou


386. A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou


387. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”


388. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Maya Angelou (1928-2014), poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist


389. “You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.”


390. “Nothing will work unless you do” – Maya Angelou


391. “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” – Maya Angelou


392. “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


393. “I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.” – Maya Angelou


394. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou.


395. “When Great Trees Fall


396. “Childhood's logic never asks to be proved (all conclusions are absolute).”


397. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength." - Maya Angelou, Poet


398. “She told herself that she wasn’t a fancy cook but that she could “mix groceries well enough to scare hunger away from starving a man.” -Maya Angelou


399. "Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” — Maya Angelou


400. “No sun outlasts its sunset but will rise again and bring the dawn.” – Maya Angelou


401. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” ~ Maya Angelou


402. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou


403. “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”


404. “Soft you day, be velvet soft,


405. “We clap hands and welcome the peace of Christmas. We beckon this good season to wait a while with us.” ~ Maya Angelou


406. “Life was cheap and death entirely free.”


407. “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.”


408. “Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”


409. “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”


410. “In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.”


411. You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. Maya Angelou


412. “All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”


413. “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”


414. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” ~Maya Angelou


415. “The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief's bugle, but where to blow it,”


416. “In the flush of love’s light. we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are. and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” – Maya Angelou


417. “You alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Dr. Maya Angelou


418. “Does my sexiness upset you?


419. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” —Maya Angelou


420. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. ” ― Maya Angelou


421. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”


422. “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”- Maya Angelou


423. “She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”


424. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou


425. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” — Maya Angelou


426. Maya Angelou is trying to explain here that you cannot always just be receiving, you must be able to give back too.


427. All great achievements require time. -Maya Angelou


428. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.


429. “To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.”


430. “Let nothing dim the light that shines from within".”


431. “But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams


432. "if You Have Only One Smile In You, Give It To The People You Love."– Maya Angelou


433. “History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.”


434. “You may not control all the events that happen to you. but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”—Maya Angelou


435. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.” – Maya Angelou


436. “Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.”


437. “You have tried to destroy me


438. “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”


439. “On late evenings when


440. At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.


441. “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”


442. “Each time a woman stands up for herself she stands up for all women.” –Maya Angelou


443. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”


444. "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.” –Maya Angelou


445. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” —Maya Angelou


446. “Youthful cynicism is sad to observe, because it indicates not so much knowledge learned from bitter experiences as insufficient trust even to attempt the future.”


447. “I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” - Maya Angelou


448. “If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou


449. “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” – Maya Angelou


450. “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” — Maya Angelou


451. “I'm happy...I laugh as much as I can and cry when I have to, without apology. I think that’s happy.”


452. “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.” – Maya Angelou


453. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. ” - Maya Angelou


454. 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


455. To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. — Maya Angelou


456. “There were people who went to sleep last night,


457. “I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”


458. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou


459. “If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou


460. “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


461. “She's very intelligent and she often said she didn't fear anyone enough to lie.”


462. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” ― Maya Angelou


463. “Believe people when they tell you who they are. They know themselves better than you.”


464. “As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”


465. “Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.” —Maya Angelou


466. “He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.”


467. “There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”


468. “The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”


469. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. —Maya Angelou, civil rights activist and poet


470. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou


471. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou


472. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” — Maya Angelou


473. “One person, with good purpose, can, constitute the majority.”


474. “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


475. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” —Maya Angelou


476. “Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.” — Maya Angelou


477. “Let nothing dim the light that shines from within.” ~Maya Angelou


478. “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”


479. “I've had rainbows in my clouds.”


480. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” – Maya Angelou


481. “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.”


482. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”—Maya Angelou


483. “The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.” – Maya Angelou


484. “Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.”


485. “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’”


486. “The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story...”


487. 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


488. “I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.”


489. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.” –Maya Angelou


490. The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.


491. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou


492. "In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” —Maya Angelou


493. This year, let's strive to spread kindness and joy.


494. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”- Maya Angelou


495. “To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.”


496. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” –Maya Angelou


497. “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”


498. 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


499. A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. - Maya Angelou


500. "If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” —Maya Angelou"


501. “When something feels bad, don’t hesitate to talk about it!” – Maya Angelou


502. “I am woman phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that’s me.” — Maya Angelou


503. “I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”


504. “I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you. ’” Maya Angelou


505. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ” Maya Angelou


506. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” ~ Maya Angelou


507. “We need much less than we think we need.” ~ Maya Angelou


508. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”– Maya Angelou


509. “This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” Maya Angelou


510. “A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.”


511. “He watched her every move and when she left the room, his eyes allowed her reluctantly to go.”


512. “Very few people grow up”


513. “When you learn, teach," she said frequently. "When you get, give.”


514. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. – Maya Angelou


515. “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.”


516. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”- Maya Angelou


517. “This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.” – Maya Angelou


518. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” Maya Angelou


519. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou


520. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou


521. I've learned that making a living' is not the same thing as making a "life.'"


522. “You only are free when you realize you belong no place – you belong every place – no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.”


523. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou


524. words to encourage you by Maya Angelou


525. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” - Maya Angelou


526. “If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” — Maya Angelou


527. I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity. Maya Angelou


528. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. - Maya Angelou


529. “We live the hopes of the suffragettes and the demands of Maya Angelou.” ‒ Deborah Frances-White


530. “A Rock, A River, A Tree


531. “A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.”


532. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou


533. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” ~ Maya Angelou


534. Monday Motivation: Maya Angelou


535. “I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”


536. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Civil rights activist Maya Angelou


537. “If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” — Maya Angelou


538. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” — Maya Angelou


539. “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.” -Maya Angelou dark green background


540. One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.” —Maya Angelou


541. “To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents”


542. “It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of Blackness.”


543. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ~ Maya Angelou


544. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”


545. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou


546. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage. you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” - Maya Angelou


547. “As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”


548. My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. —Maya Angelou


549. “I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.”


550. “Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.


551. “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.”


552. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou


553. “Did you want to see me broken?


554. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” – Maya Angelou


555. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou


556. “I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” — Maya Angelou


557. “All great achievements require time.” ~ Maya Angelou


558. “All great achievements require time.”- Maya Angelou


559. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it the more you have.” – Maya Angelou


560. “Faith is the evidence of the unseen.”


561. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter


562. I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve. —Maya Angelou


563. “There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”


564. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. – Maya Angelou


565. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. - Maya Angelou


566. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou


567. “If i am not good to myself. how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?” ― Maya Angelou


568. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” ―Maya Angelou


569. “Just like moons and suns,


570. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”


571. “A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.”


572. “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.”


573. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou


574. “His day is done.


575. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.” —Maya Angelou


576. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”


577. “Determine to live life with flair and laughter.”


578. “This a a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.”


579. “Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.”


580. “All great achievements require time.” — Maya Angelou


581. “The best decision I ever made was keeping my baby.” – Maya Angelou


582. “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


583. "If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou


584. Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou


585. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou


586. “All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.


587. “No matter what happens. or how bad it seems today. life does go on. and it will be better tomorrow.” - Maya Angelou


588. “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” ― Maya Angelou


589. “I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.”


590. Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. - Maya Angelou


591. “I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”


592. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.


593. "You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated” – Maya Angelou


594. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou


595. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ~ Maya Angelou


596. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” —Maya Angelou


597. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”—Maya Angelou


598. “Every journey begins with a single step.”


599. “For what can stand against me, since one person, with God, constitutes a majority?”


600. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” ~ Maya Angelou


601. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” —Maya Angelou


602. ¨One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.¨ – Maya Angelou


603. “Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”


604. ‘The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.’ – Maya Angelou


605. “Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.”


606. The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. - Author: Maya Angelou


607. “The“b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison.”


608. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” Maya Angelou


609. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you’ve said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou


610. If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be


611. “You can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.” – Maya Angelou


612. “At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”


613. “He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.”


614. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. Maya Angelou


615. “We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”


616. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”- Maya Angelou


617. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” ~ Maya Angelou


618. “I have learned to accept my responsibility and to forgive myself first, then to apologise to anyone injured by my misreckoning.”


619. “Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.”


620. “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.”


621. “I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”


622. “While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else is also God’s creation.” – Maya Angelou


623. “Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.” ― Maya Angelou


624. “I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.” – Maya Angelou


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


626. “It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.” —Maya Angelou


627. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” – Maya Angelou


628. “She used to say that her secret to life was that she “hoped for the best, was prepared for the worst, so anything in between didn’t come as a surprise.”


629. “Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”


630. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”


631. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou


632. “This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” –Maya Angelou


633. “If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.”


634. “Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.”


635. “If you are always trying to be normal. you will never know how amazing you can be.” -Maya Angelou


636. “There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”


637. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”


638. “The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.” – Maya Angelou


639. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” — Maya Angelou


640. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” —Maya Angelou


641. “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.” -Maya Angelou


642. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”– Maya Angelou


643. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”— Maya Angelou


644. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”- Maya Angelou


645. “And say simply very simply with hope Good morning.” — Maya Angelou


646. “If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.”


647. “We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.”


648. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”


649. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”


650. “One paints the beginning of a certain end. The other, the end of a sure beginning." — Maya Angelou


651. "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” —Maya Angelou"


652. Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.


653. “Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.”


654. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”— Maya Angelou


655. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” —Maya Angelou


656. “Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances.” – Maya Angelou


657. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou


658. “Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.”


659. Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. Maya Angelou


660. “Out of the huts of history's shame


661. “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” ― Maya Angelou


662. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”


663. “I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.”


664. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” -Maya Angelou


665. “Even if they were society's pariahs, they were going to be angels in a marble white heaven and sit on the right hand of Jesus, the Son of God.”


666. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” ―Maya Angelou


667. “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


668. “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”


669. “Norman Vincent Peale once said, ‘ Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.’ I think that’s true.” – Maya Angelou


670. “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.”


671. “Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it;


672. “People will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou


673. "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."— Maya Angelou, American poet, and civil rights activist


674. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Maya Angelou.


675. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou


676. “Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou


677. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”– Maya Angelou


678. “The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library”


679. “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”


680. “A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.” – Maya Angelou


681. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. ­­-­ Maya Angelou


682. “Take the blinders from your vision


683. “When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.”


684. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. – Maya Angelou


685. “I am Woman, Phenomenally, Phenomenal Woman, that's me.”


686. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou


687. “All great achievements require time.”


688. “I got my own back.” – Maya Angelou


689. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” - Maya Angelou


690. “I sustain myself with the love of family.”


691. “No sun outlasts its sunset but will rise again and bring the dawn.” — Maya Angelou


692. “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”


693. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.” – Maya Angelou


694. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” – Maya Angelou


695. “If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou


696. “And still I rise.” Maya Angelou


697. “I’ve got a magic charm


698. “I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”


699. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou


700. “I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”


701. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. — Maya Angelou


702. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” ~ Maya Angelou


703. “No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.”


704. “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


705. “Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”


706. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou


707. “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.”


708. “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


709. “Nothing will work unless you do.” —Maya Angelou


710. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” — Maya Angelou


711. “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” — Maya Angelou


712. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou


713. “You dwell in whitened castles


714. “Why do you dislike people?"


715. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” – Maya Angelou


716. “When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”


717. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou


718. “In the flush of love's light


719. “If one was dying, it had to be done in style if the dying took place in whitefolks' part of town.”


720. “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” – Maya Angelou


721. “I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same as ‘making a life.’” – Maya Angelou


722. “Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily”


723. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.” – Maya Angelou


724. “Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.”


725. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” —Maya Angelou


726. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”


727. “Nothing will work unless you do.”


728. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” –Maya Angelou


729. “Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If i insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”


730. To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.


731. “What a wonderful day! I’ve never seen this one before.”- Maya Angelou


732. “Still, I rise.” — Maya Angelou


733. “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.” – Maya Angelou


734. 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


735. “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


736. “Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”


737. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. — Maya Angelou


738. “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.” – Maya Angelou


739. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!”


740. “Prejudice is a burden which confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”


741. “My life has been one great big joke,


742. You shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.


743. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”


744. “Annie, everybody has a policy. In this world you have to have a policy. Now, my policy is I don't treat colored people.”


745. “Life likes to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go!”


746. “I commend lovers, I am enheartened by lovers, I am encouraged by their courage and inspired by their passion.”


747. “Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.”


748. “I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.”


749. “I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going.” -Maya Angelou


750. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou


751. ”You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise. ” – Maya Angelou


752. “Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”


753. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” ~ Maya Angelou


754. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou


755. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”


756. “No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.” — Maya Angelou


757. “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”


758. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh. - Maya Angelou


759. 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


760. “You may shoot me with your words,


761. “Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, ‘Can't do is like Don't Care.’ Neither of them have a home.”


762. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou


763. “I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it.


764. “You are only free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.”


765. People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.


766. “All great achievements require time.” —Maya Angelou


767. You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. -Maya Angelou


768. “God helps those who help themselves.”


769. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” — Maya Angelou


770. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” –Maya AngelouCLICK TO TWEET


771. “People will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou


772. 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


773. “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.”


774. “The fog wasn't simply the steamy vapors off the bay caught and penned in by hills, but a soft breath of anonymity that shrouded and cushioned the bashful traveler.”


775. amazing you can be. Maya Angelou


776. “Let nothing dim the light that shines from within”


777. “I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.”


778. “Life loves the liver of it.”


779. In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou


780. “Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”


781. “They may forget your name, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou


782. “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


783. “If you are going down a road and don’t like what’s in front of you, and look behind you and don’t like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!” ― Maya Angelou


784. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” - Maya Angelou


785. “The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.”


786. “The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”


787. “Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross”


788. “It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.”


789. “If you are always trying to be normal. you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou


790. “If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present... gratefully.”


791. “In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou


792. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou


793. “Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.” – Maya Angelou


794. “Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”


795. “Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.” – Maya Angelou


796. “The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. ”


797. “Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.”


798. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”- Maya Angelou


799. “Let nothing dim the light that shines from within.” - Maya Angelou


800. “I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.”


801. “Don't do anything that you think is wrong. Just do what you think is right, and then be ready to back it up even with your life.”


802. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better. do better.” – Maya Angelou


803. If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou


804. I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.


805. “Look beyond your tasseled caps


806. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou


807. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. – Maya Angelou


808. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. – Maya Angelou


809. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” — Maya Angelou


810. “Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.” ― Maya Angelou


811. “Preach it, I say preach it.”


812. “Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening”


813. "A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” — Maya Angelou


814. “I thought at the time that it was noble to bear the ills one had silently. But not so silently that others didn't know one was bearing them.”


815. “You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.” — Maya Angelou


816. “Imagine, I might really become somebody. Someday.”


817. “I sustain myself with the love of family.”― Maya Angelou


818. “The moon has a magic all its own. It can inspire, uplift, and reveal the deepest secrets of the human soul.” ― Maya Angelou


819. “I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.”


820. “You may write me down in history


821. “Nothing works—unless you do”- Maya Angelou


822. 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


823. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a b*tch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”— Maya Angelou


824. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”


825. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya Angelou


826. “Success is loving life and daring to live it.”


827. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Dr. Maya Angelou


828. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” — Maya Angelou


829. “Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a whore, it's your life. Be a damn good one. Don't chippy at anything. Anything worth having is worth working for.'


830. “I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.”


831. “Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.”


832. In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. –Maya Angelou


833. “I respect myself and insist on it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.” – Maya Angelou


834. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again” – Maya Angelou


835. “I believe that every person is born with talent.” – Maya Angelou


836. “My mother shed her protective love down around me, and without knowing why, people sensed that I had value.” ― Maya Angelou


837. “Nothing will work unless you do.” -Maya Angelou, writer


838. “We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”


839. “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.” – Dr. Maya Angelou


840. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” –Maya Angelou, author


841. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ―Maya Angelou


842. “If you don’t like something, change it and if you can’t change it, change your attitude.”- Maya Angelou


843. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” —Maya Angelou


844. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage. you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”~ Maya Angelou


845. “This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.”


846. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ― Maya Angelou


847. “When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”


848. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou


849. “The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,


850. In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. —Maya Angelou


851. “Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.”


852. 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


853. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. – Maya Angelou


854. "If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” ​– Maya Angelou


855. “It’s the fire in my eyes,


856. “At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”


857. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” – Maya Angelou


858. “I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?”


859. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within” – Maya Angelou


860. “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.”


861. “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.”


862. “I did then what I knew best, when I knew better, I did better. Maya Angelo”


863. “You may not control all the events that happen to you. but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ― Maya Angelou


864. “When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.”


865. “But think of it this way, if people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.”


866. “I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.”


867. “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” ~ Maya Angelou


868. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” ~Maya Angelou


869. “Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”


870. “The needs of a society determine its ethics,”


871. “You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for”


872. “It was a large heart with lots of hearts growing smaller inside, and piercing from the outside rim to the smallest heart was an arrow.”


873. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” Maya Angelou


874. “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” – Maya Angelou


875. “When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here”


876. “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.”


877. “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” Maya Angelou


878. “You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I’ve never been so strong. Now I’m where I belong.” — Maya Angelou


879. Nothing will work unless you do.—Maya Angelou


880. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”


881. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated” – Maya Angelou


882. “Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.”


883. “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.”


884. “I walk into a room


885. “We must hear the questions raised by Fannie Lou Hamer forty years ago. Every American everywhere asks herself, himself, these questions Hamer asked:


886. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.


887. “In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou


888. “Nothing will work unless you do. ” —Maya Angelou


889. “My mother raised me, and then freed me,”


890. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” — Maya Angelou


891. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” ~ Maya Angelou


892. The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change. —Maya Angelou


893. “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”


894. “And still I rise.” – Maya Angelou


895. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” — Maya Angelou


896. “Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.”


897. “This book has been written to examine some of the ways love heals and helps a person to climb impossible heights and rise from immeasurable depths.”


898. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” Maya Angelou


899. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou


900. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. —Maya Angelou


901. “The sun has come.


902. “When you get, give.”


903. “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” – Maya Angelou


904. “The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.”


905. “Every storm runs out of rain.” – Maya Angelou


906. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” ―Maya Angelou


907. “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 some things back.”


908. “The wise woman thinks twice and speaks once or, better yet, does not speak at all.”


909. “Still I’ll rise.”


910. “You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.


911. “I come as one, but stand as 10,000.”


912. “It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.”


913. “She said, 'No, you learned that you have power - power and determination. I love you and I am proud of you. With those two things, you can go anywhere and everywhere.”


914. “Maya Angelou once said, ‘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.’”


915. “Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass”


916. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” ― Maya Angelou


917. “The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.”


918. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. —Maya Angelou


919. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!” ~Maya Angelou


920. I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. —Maya Angelou


921. “If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.”


922. “I had to trust life since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. ”– Maya Angelou


923. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou


924. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ­­~­ Maya Angelou


925. “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


926. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” —Maya Angelou


927. “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


928. “Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”


929. “Love recognizes no barriers.” – Maya Angelou


930. “Still I'll rise.”


931. “If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou, Pulitzer-prize nominated poet


932. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou, Poet


933. “In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then?”


934. “You may not control all the events that happen to you. but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” - Maya Angelou


935. “The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.” - Maya Angelou


936. “The child gives, because the body can, and the mind of the violator cannot.”


937. “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”


938. Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. — Maya Angelou, American poet, and civil rights activist


939. “The best decision I ever made was keeping my baby.” — Maya Angelou


940. “A mother's love liberates.” —Maya Angelou


941. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ~ Maya Angelou


942. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou


943. "My mother shed her protective love down around me and without knowing why people sensed that I had value.” — Maya Angelou, Mom & Me & Mom


944. “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


945. “Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.” – Maya Angelou


946. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou


947. “I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”


948. “The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.” – Maya Angelou


949. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou


950. “At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.” – Maya Angelou

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