Maya Angelou Quotes


110 quotes:

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. 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. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. 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. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. 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."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Attitude Quotes
"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Celebration Quotes
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Attitude Quotes
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Ability Quotes
"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. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Time And Time Management Quotes
"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Responsibility Quotes
"Then I went back to my mother when I was 13 and she was ready for me."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Mother Quotes
"The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Men And Women Quotes
"I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Laughter Quotes
"Someone was hurt before you; wronged before you; beaten before you; humiliated before you; raped before you; yet, someone SURVIVED"
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Hurt Quotes
"When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes
"Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Greatness Quotes
"Mrs. Parks is for me probably what the Statute of Liberty was for immigrants. She stood for the future, and the better future."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Future Quotes
"The future is plump with promise."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Future Quotes
"I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no"
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Electricity Quotes
"Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Education Quotes
"Those of us who have gathered here, ... we owe something from this minute on, so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Debt Quotes
"life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy"
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Courtesy Quotes
"i believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare"
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Courage Quotes
"Courage allows the successful woman to fail-and learn powerful lessons-from the failure-so that in the end,she didn't fail at all."
Author: Angelou Quotes Category: Courage Quotes

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