The collection of Maya Angelou inspiring quotes below may prove to be life-changing for you. Before moving to these quotes, however, let's have a look at a brief overview of Maya Angelou's life.
About Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (born: April 4, 1928 – died: May 28, 2014) was an American author, poet, and civil rights advocate.
Most of her work was devoted to the defence of black culture and traditions. She wrote seven memoirs, including 'I know why the caged bird sings'; several books of poetry and numerous plays. Throughout her career, Angelou received several awards for her fabulous poetry and literary work, and her efforts to ensure that people were not discriminated based on race, color, gender and religion.
Inspiring Maya Angelou Quotes
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Maya Angelou Love Quotes
Life without love is like a sunless garden, isn't it? So you really need to be a perfect lover to be loved by others. These Maya Angelou love quotes will give rise to a loving person within you.
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| "To those who have given up on love: I say, 'Trust life a little bit.'" (Maya Angelou) |
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved.
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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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.
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| "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." (Maya Angelou) |
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society, a massive, powerful society.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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Motivational & Inspirational Maya Angelou Quotes About Life
These motivational and inspirational Maya Angelou quotes about life will enable you to face difficulties in life with resilience and perseverance instead of getting demoralized, and will assist you in pursuit of your goals. Some of the quotes will also inspire you to be forgiving and careful towards others.
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| "No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow." (Maya Angelou) |
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'
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Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
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| "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) |
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.
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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.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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| "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." (Maya Angelou) |
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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I believe that every person is born with talent.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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| "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." (Maya Angelou) |
All great achievements require time.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
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| "Nothing can dim the light that shines from within." (Maya Angelou) |
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.
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| "I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it." (Maya Angelou) |
Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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Other Maya Angelou Famous Quotes
Following Maya Angelou famous quotes will provide you with useful bits of advice and guidance to assist you in living a prosperous and peaceful life.
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.
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| "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." (Maya Angelou) |
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.
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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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| "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) |
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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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.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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| "Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery." (Maya Angelou) |
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
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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.
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We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find a home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.
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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.
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| "There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth." (Maya Angelou) |
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because 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.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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