Maya Angelou quotes page 1

born April 4, 1928, American author and civil rights activist

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take
our breath away.
Maya Angelou

Success is loving life and daring to live 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

We need to haunt the halls of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.
Maya Angelou

Chilren's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
Maya Angelou

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice
any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou

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

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
Maya Angelou

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right
decision.
Maya Angelou

The needs of society determine its ethics.
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

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Maya Angelou

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

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
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

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Maya Angelou

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it
become uncomfortable.
Maya Angelou

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
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

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
Maya Angelou

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to
believing nothing.
Maya Angelou

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
Maya Angelou

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not
be lived again.
Maya Angelou

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

Being a woman is hard work.
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

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned, pricks more deeply and draws
more blood.
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

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
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

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