Maya Angelou Quotes
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
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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.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Nothing will work unless you do.
All great achievements require time.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
