Maya Angelou Quotes



       “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” 
- Maya Angelou

        “When you know better you do better.” 
- Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

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

       “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

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

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

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

        “Success is loving life and daring to live it.” 
- Maya Angelou

       “When you learn, teach, when you get, give.” 
- Maya Angelou

        “My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.” 
- Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

        “The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.” 
- Maya Angelou

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


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

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

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

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

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

        “While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.” 
- Maya Angelou

        “I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.” 
- Maya Angelou

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

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

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

        “History with all its unending pain cannot be outlived, but faced with courage need not be lived again.” 
- Maya Angelou

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

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

        “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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         “Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.” 
- Maya Angelou

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

         “I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.” 
- Maya Angelou

        “She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.” 
- Maya Angelou

         “If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.” 
- Maya Angelou

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