Maya Angelou, a timeless voice resonating with wisdom, resilience, and hope. Her empowering words embody courage, determination, and an unwavering spirit. Immerse yourself in the profound depths of Maya Angelou’s quotes; life lessons encapsulated in powerful, unforgettable phrases. Get ready to change your life and embark on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment with Maya Angelou’s quotes.
Best Maya Angelou Quotes
I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. 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
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh. Maya Angelou
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. Maya Angelou
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. Maya Angelou
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. Maya Angelou
When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time. Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. Maya Angelou
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Maya Angelou
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
Living well is an art that can be developed a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. Maya Angelou
I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. 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
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. Maya Angelou
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. Maya Angelou
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Maya Angelou
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. Maya Angelou
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou
The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry. Maya Angelou
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou
Live as though life was created for you. Maya Angelou
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
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. Maya Angelou
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. Maya Angelou
When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe. Maya Angelou
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. Maya Angelou
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. Maya Angelou
Be present in all things and thankful for all things. Maya Angelou
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you. Maya Angelou
I sustain myself with the love of family. Maya Angelou
A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. Maya Angelou
To those who have given up on love I say, Trust life a little bit. Maya Angelou
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. Maya Angelou
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
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. Maya Angelou
Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less. Maya Angelou
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! Maya Angelou
No one can take the place of a friend, no one. Maya Angelou
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? Maya Angelou
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
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. Maya Angelou
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. Maya Angelou
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. Maya Angelou
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. Maya Angelou
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
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
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. Maya Angelou
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. Maya Angelou
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. Maya Angelou
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh. Maya Angelou
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. Maya Angelou
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
All great achievements require time. Maya Angelou
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. Maya Angelou
Nothing will work unless you do. Maya Angelou
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou
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
Success is loving life and daring to live it. Maya Angelou
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. Maya Angelou
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. Maya Angelou
Be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Maya Angelou
Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it. Maya Angelou
While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated. Maya Angelou
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant. Maya Angelou
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. Maya Angelou
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers. Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. Maya Angelou
Let’s tell the truth to people. When people ask, How are you? have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don’t want to know about yours. 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. Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou
We need much less than we think we need. Maya Angelou
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. Maya Angelou
I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe. Maya Angelou
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Maya Angelou
Strong women precious jewels all their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage. Maya Angelou
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she roes! Maya Angelou
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally. Maya Angelou
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. Maya Angelou
Don’t let the man bring you down. Maya Angelou
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. Maya Angelou
I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. Maya Angelou
The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story. Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou
We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. Maya Angelou
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. 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. Maya Angelou
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face. Maya Angelou
The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story. Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that making a Living is not the same thing as making a life. Maya Angelou
If you’re for the right thing, you do it without thinking. Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. Maya Angelou
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. Maya Angelou
Let’s tell the truth to people. When people ask, How are you? have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don’t want to know about yours. 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. Maya Angelou
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. Maya Angelou
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Maya Angelou
Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren’t, we should behave as though we are cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes. Maya Angelou
Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. Maya Angelou
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. Maya Angelou
