950 Inspirational Maya Angelou Quotes On Leadership (2023)
1. "Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou
2. "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ― Maya Angelou
3. “The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. ”
4. “I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources.”
5. “Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.”
6. “And still I rise.” – Maya Angelou
7. “A Woman in harmony with her spirit
8. “She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.”
9. "If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou
10. “If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.” – Maya Angelou
11. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou
12. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
13. “I was liked, and what a difference it made.”
14. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
15. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.”
16. “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
17. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”― Maya Angelou
18. “If you are always trying to be normal. you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
19. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” — Maya Angelou
20. “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.”- Maya Angelou
21. Maya Angelou, poet and author: “They may forget your name, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
22. “That child would stumble over the pattern in a rug.”
23. “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.”
24. “I’m grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.” – Maya Angelou, Poet
25. “Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage means we face our fears.”
26. “It's in the click of my heels,
27. “The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. ” —Maya Angelou
28. “If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”
29. “My obsession with pineapples nearly drove me mad. I dreamt of the days when I would be grown and able to buy a whole carton for myself alone. Although”
30. “The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.”
31. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” –Maya Angelou
32. “There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.”
33. “Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware.”
34. “Can't Do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.”
35. “The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
36. “Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N.”
37. “The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”
38. “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
39. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
40. “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
41. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” Maya Angelou
42. “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
43. “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
44. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” ~ Maya Angelou
45. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” – Maya Angelou
46. 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
47. “If the pretties were expected to make the supreme sacrifice in order to 'belong,' what could the unattractive female do?”
48. “My mother shed her protective love down around me and without knowing why people sensed that I had value.” Maya Angelou
49. “You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou
50. Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. Maya Angelou, Celebrations
51. 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.
52. “If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”
53. “I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”
54. “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.”
55. “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
56. “We love and lose in China,
57. “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” —Maya Angelou
58. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~Maya Angelou
59. “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
60. “Grief works its way on people differently. Some sulk, or become morose, or weep and scream a vengeance at the gods.”
61. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive. – Maya Angelou
62. “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.” – Maya Angelou
63. “When you know better you do better.”
64. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
65. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”― Maya Angelou
66. I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.- Maya Angelou
67. “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ From intro to movie: "Spinning Into Butter”
68. “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
69. “If they want to learn how to live life right they ought to study me on Saturday night.” — Maya Angelou
70. 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.
71. “If I am not good to myself. how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?” - Maya Angelou
72. “We, unaccustomed to courage
73. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” Maya Angelou
74. This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. Maya Angelou
75. “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.”
76. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou
77. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. — Maya Angelou
78. “Nothing will work unless you do,”- Maya Angelou
79. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”
80. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” - Maya Angelou
81. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
82. “Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.” -Maya Angelou
83. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ―Maya Angelou, American poet, singer, and civil rights activist
84. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” —Maya Angelou
85. “You may cut me with your eyes / You may kill me with your hatefulness / But still. like air. I’ll rise.” — Maya Angelou. “Still I Rise”
86. “I would like to be known as an intelligent woman. a courageous woman. a loving woman. a woman who teaches by being.” – Maya Angelou
87. “You said to lean on your arm
88. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou
89. “I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”
90. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
91. “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
92. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.” —Maya Angelou
93. “A certain person wondered why
94. “And still I rise.” — Maya Angelou
95. “Never let white folks know what you really think. If you’re sad, laugh. If you’re bleeding inside, dance.”
96. “If you're always trying to be normal you'll never know how amazing you can be.”
97. “Nothing will work unless you do.” ―Maya Angelou
98. “No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.” – Maya Angelou
99. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.” – Maya Angelou
100. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”—Maya Angelou
101. 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.
102. “I am a woman. phenomenally. Phenomenal woman. that’s me.” – Maya Angelou.
103. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”— Maya Angelou
104. “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
105. The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.
106. “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.” Maya Angelou
107. “Hadn't I, always, but ever and ever, thought that life was just one great risk for the living?”
108. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” – Maya Angelou
109. "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
110. “We need much less than we think we need.” Maya Angelou
111. “Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.”
112. “We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.”
113. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
114. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. – Maya Angelou
115. “There are some nights when
116. “Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.”
117. “If you’re always trying to be normal. you’ll never know how amazing you can be.” — Maya Angelou
118. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou
119. “We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.” – Maya Angelou, American poet, singer, and civil rights activist
120. “Cotton rows crisscross the world
121. Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” ― Maya Angelou
122. “The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.”
123. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”— Maya Angelou
124. “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
125. “Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.”
126. “Never make someone your priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou
127. “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.”
128. And still, I rise. – Maya Angelou
129. “You have no idea what your legacy will be because your legacy is every life you touch.”
130. “Exclusive” leadership is hurting your bottom line
131. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
132. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
133. “On this platform of peace, we can create a language
134. “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” — Maya Angelou
135. “The race of man is suffering And I can hear the moan, ‘Cause nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone.”
136. “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.”- Maya Angelou
137. “Comprendía la perversidad de la vida, la de que en la lucha estriba la alegría.”
138. “There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.”
139. "I am a woman phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.” — Maya Angelou
140. “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” – Maya Angelou
141. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” — Maya Angelou
142. “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.” —Maya Angelou
143. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou
144. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” ― Maya Angelou
145. “I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou
146. “As a species, we were an abomination. All of us.”
147. “Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.” – Maya Angelou
148. “If you are always trying to be normal. you will never know how amazing you can be.” - Maya Angelou
149. “Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
150. “I have a son who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving, strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou
151. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou
152. ‘Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.’ — Maya Angelou
153. “I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
154. “Be present in all things and thankful for all.” – Maya Angelou
155. “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.”
156. “The years may wrinkle our skin but not our spirit.” – Quote by Maya Angelou
157. 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
158. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
159. "You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated."— Maya Angelou
160. “I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”
161. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” Maya Angelou
162. Nothing will work unless you do. — Maya Angelou
163. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” ~Maya Angelou
164. “You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.”
165. “We are missing Michael.
166. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. —Maya Angelou”
167. “If you must look back, do so forgivingly.
168. “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
169. “All I got to do is stay black and die.”
170. “Determine to live life with flair and laughter.” - Maya Angelou
171. “I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”
172. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. — Maya Angelou
173. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ― Maya Angelou
174. “This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.”—Maya Angelou
175. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
176. “I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.” – Maya Angelou
177. “Without courage. we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind. TRUE. merciful. generous. or honest.” – Maya Angelou
178. “A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.”
179. “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. ” — Maya Angelou
180. “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud”― Maya Angelou
181. “My name had lost its ring of familiarity and I had to be nudged to go and receive my diploma.”
182. “Stand up straight and realize who you are. that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.” - Maya Angelou
183. “I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”
184. “Achievement brings it own anticlimax.”
185. “not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.”
186. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou
187. “Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.”
188. “Those are facts, but facts, to a child, are merely words to memorize.”
189. “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” — Maya Angelou, Poet (Source: Huffington Post)
190. “My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke. I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.” – Maya Angelou
191. “See you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing you do it without thinking.”
192. If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? – Maya Angelou
193. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou
194. “If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
195. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
196. “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.
197. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” — Maya Angelou
198. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. - Maya Angelou
199. “You may not control all the events that happen to you. but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou. American poet
200. “I'm young as morning
201. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ~ Maya Angelou
202. You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. – Maya Angelou
203. “To those who are given much, much is expected.”
204. I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. – Maya Angelou
205. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style. – Maya Angelou
206. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
207. “People will forget what you said. They will forget what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou, writer, poet, and civil rights activist
208. “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”― Maya Angelou
209. “My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” – Maya Angelou
210. “I learned that a friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
211. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it”
212. “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
213. “I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.”
214. “Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.”
215. “Astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” ― Maya Angelou
216. “My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.” — Maya Angelou
217. “Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
218. “LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME
219. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” — Maya Angelou
220. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ~ Maya Angelou
221. “You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.”
222. “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.” —Maya Angelou
223. “You do your best until you know better, then you do better.”
224. “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
225. This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before. –Maya Angelou
226. “You can’t use up creativity. The more the you use, the more you have.” –Maya Angelou
227. “I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.” Maya Angelou
228. “You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been.”
229. All great achievements require time. — Maya Angelou
230. “You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
231. “I have a son who is my heart. A wonderful young man, darling and loving and strong and kind.” – Maya Angelou
232. “Try to Be a Rainbow in Someone else’s Cloud” ~ Maya Angelou
233. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
234. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
235. “She lived life as if it had been created just for her”
236. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
237. “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, poet
238. “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.” – Maya Angelou
239. “The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.”
240. “It takes courage to be kind.” — Maya Angelou
241. “Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.” — Maya Angelou
242. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” — Maya Angelou
243. “I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.”
244. You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. - Maya Angelou, source unknown
245. “No,nobody but nobody can make it out her alone.”
246. “You may not control all the events that happen to you. but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
247. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage. you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou
248. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” —Maya Angelou"
249. “Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”
250. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
251. “Every storm runs out of rain.”
252. “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!”
253. “Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.”
254. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
255. “Don't let the man bring you down.”
256. “I am a woman phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.” – Maya Angelou
257. “the true nature of the human heart is as whimsical as spring weather. All signals may aim toward a fall of rain when suddenly the skies will clear.”
258. “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
259. 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
260. “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou
261. “Nothing will work unless you do. ” — Maya Angelou
262. “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.”
263. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” ~ Maya Angelou
264. “I have written 11 books but each time I think ‘Uh-oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re going to find me out.’” – Maya Angelou
265. Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. — Maya Angelou
266. “Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”
267. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”— Maya Angelou
268. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou
269. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” – Maya Angelou
270. “It was a little light, but she aimed it directly at the gloom of ignorance.”
271. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” ― Maya Angelou
272. "Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” — Maya Angelou
273. “Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
274. “If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.”
275. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” – Maya Angelou
276. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
277. “If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.”
278. “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.” - Maya Angelou
279. “Here on the pulse of this new day
280. “All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unalike.”
281. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
282. “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.”
283. 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
284. “No matter how good or bad you think life is, wake up each day and be thankful for life. Someone somewhere else is fighting to survive.”- Maya Angelou
285. “While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.”
286. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” — Maya Angelou
287. “You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.”
288. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ―Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
289. “In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.”
290. “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
291. "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
292. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou
293. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou
294. “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” ― Maya Angelou
295. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. ” – Maya Angelou
296. “In all my work, I try to say – ‘You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?’”
297. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” - Maya Angelou, poet and activist
298. “You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I’ve never been so strong. Now I’m where I belong.” – Maya Angelou
299. If we lose our love and self-respect and respect for each other, this is how we will finally die. — Maya Angelou
300. My mother shed her protective love down around me, and without knowing why, people sensed that I had value. – Maya Angelou
301. “If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.” ― Maya Angelou
302. To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” — Maya Angelou
303. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself”
304. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” –Maya Angelou
305. I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. –Dr. Maya Angelou
306. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone.” – Maya Angelou
307. “First we became friendly, then we became sister friends. When she finally told me I was her daughter, I knew I had found home. Sitting”
308. “Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.”
309. “If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
310. All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
311. “A BRAVE AND STARTLING TRUTH
312. “Can I do it? I'd rather not try and fail."
313. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” — Maya Angelou
314. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” —Maya Angelou, writer. Here are more Maya Angelou quotes that will uplift and inspire you.
315. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. - Maya Angelou
316. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
317. “You alone are enough. you have nothing to prove to anybody.” - Maya Angelou
318. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Maya Angelou
319. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”—Maya Angelou
320. “Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.” — Maya Angelou
321. “Before he could bring his lips together, his teeth fell, no, actually his teeth jumped, out of his mouth.”
322. “The Black woman in the South who raises sons, grandsons and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose.”
323. “I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”
324. “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.”
325. “Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.” ― Maya Angelou
326. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.
327. “If you get, give. If you learn, teach.”– Maya Angelou, poet and activist
328. “A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
329. “People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel”
330. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou
331. “If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
332. “Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.”
333. “But still, like air, I’ll rise.”
334. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. ” — Maya Angelou
335. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~ Maya Angelou
336. “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
337. “Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.” — Maya Angelou
338. “All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.”
339. “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
340. “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
341. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” —Maya Angelou, civil rights activist and poet
342. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou
343. “You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
344. “I sustain myself with the love of family.” ~Maya Angelou
345. “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” -Maya Angelou
346. Nothing will work unless you do.
347. "Love liberates. It doesn't just hold—that's ego.” — Maya Angelou
348. “When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep”
349. "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
350. “You are loved. I repeat. you are loved.” – Maya Angelou
351. “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
352. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” -- Maya Angelou
353. "A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.”—Maya Angelou
354. “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.”
355. “If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.”
356. “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.”– Maya Angelou
357. “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, Author and Poet
358. “Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”
359. “I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.”
360. Every storm runs out of rain. - Maya Angelou.
361. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” Maya Angelou
362. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou
363. “See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.”
364. “In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.”
365. “I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
366. When you learn, teach. When you get, give. —Maya Angelou
367. “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.” — Maya Angelou
368. “Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.”
369. “I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing.”
370. “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.”
371. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
372. “All great achievements require time.” – Maya Angelou
373. “While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.”
374. “I sustain myself with the love of my family.” -Maya Angelou
375. “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else. ” – Maya Angelou
376. 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
377. The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. - Maya Angelou
378. “You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.”
379. “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
380. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” — Maya Angelou
381. “No one can take the place of a friend, no one.”
382. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ―Maya Angelou
383. People will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou
384. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” —Maya Angelou
385. “A Friend May Be Waiting Behind A Stranger’S Face.” — Maya Angelou
386. A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou
387. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”
388. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Maya Angelou (1928-2014), poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist
389. “You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.”
390. “Nothing will work unless you do” – Maya Angelou
391. “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” – Maya Angelou
392. “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
393. “I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.” – Maya Angelou
394. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou.
395. “When Great Trees Fall
396. “Childhood's logic never asks to be proved (all conclusions are absolute).”
397. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength." - Maya Angelou, Poet
398. “She told herself that she wasn’t a fancy cook but that she could “mix groceries well enough to scare hunger away from starving a man.” -Maya Angelou
399. "Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” — Maya Angelou
400. “No sun outlasts its sunset but will rise again and bring the dawn.” – Maya Angelou
401. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” ~ Maya Angelou
402. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou
403. “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
404. “Soft you day, be velvet soft,
405. “We clap hands and welcome the peace of Christmas. We beckon this good season to wait a while with us.” ~ Maya Angelou
406. “Life was cheap and death entirely free.”
407. “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.”
408. “Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”
409. “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
410. “In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.”
411. You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. Maya Angelou
412. “All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”
413. “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
414. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” ~Maya Angelou
415. “The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief's bugle, but where to blow it,”
416. “In the flush of love’s light. we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are. and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.” – Maya Angelou
417. “You alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
418. “Does my sexiness upset you?
419. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” —Maya Angelou
420. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. ” ― Maya Angelou
421. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
422. “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”- Maya Angelou
423. “She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”
424. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
425. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” — Maya Angelou
426. Maya Angelou is trying to explain here that you cannot always just be receiving, you must be able to give back too.
427. All great achievements require time. -Maya Angelou
428. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
429. “To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.”
430. “Let nothing dim the light that shines from within".”
431. “But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
432. "if You Have Only One Smile In You, Give It To The People You Love."– Maya Angelou
433. “History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.”
434. “You may not control all the events that happen to you. but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”—Maya Angelou
435. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.” – Maya Angelou
436. “Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.”
437. “You have tried to destroy me
438. “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
439. “On late evenings when
440. At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
441. “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
442. “Each time a woman stands up for herself she stands up for all women.” –Maya Angelou
443. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
444. "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.” –Maya Angelou
445. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” —Maya Angelou
446. “Youthful cynicism is sad to observe, because it indicates not so much knowledge learned from bitter experiences as insufficient trust even to attempt the future.”
447. “I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” - Maya Angelou
448. “If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou
449. “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” – Maya Angelou
450. “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” — Maya Angelou
451. “I'm happy...I laugh as much as I can and cry when I have to, without apology. I think that’s happy.”
452. “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.” – Maya Angelou
453. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. ” - Maya Angelou
454. 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
455. To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. — Maya Angelou
456. “There were people who went to sleep last night,
457. “I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
458. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
459. “If you don’t like something change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
460. “My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked, a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.” – Maya Angelou
461. “She's very intelligent and she often said she didn't fear anyone enough to lie.”
462. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” ― Maya Angelou
463. “Believe people when they tell you who they are. They know themselves better than you.”
464. “As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”
465. “Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.” —Maya Angelou
466. “He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.”
467. “There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
468. “The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
469. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. —Maya Angelou, civil rights activist and poet
470. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
471. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
472. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” — Maya Angelou
473. “One person, with good purpose, can, constitute the majority.”
474. “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
475. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” —Maya Angelou
476. “Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.” — Maya Angelou
477. “Let nothing dim the light that shines from within.” ~Maya Angelou
478. “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”
479. “I've had rainbows in my clouds.”
480. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” – Maya Angelou
481. “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.”
482. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”—Maya Angelou
483. “The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.” – Maya Angelou
484. “Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.”
485. “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’”
486. “The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story...”
487. 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
488. “I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.”
489. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.” –Maya Angelou
490. The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
491. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou
492. "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
493. This year, let's strive to spread kindness and joy.
494. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”- Maya Angelou
495. “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.”
496. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” –Maya Angelou
497. “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
498. 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. — Maya Angelou
499. A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. - Maya Angelou
500. "If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” —Maya Angelou"
501. “When something feels bad, don’t hesitate to talk about it!” – Maya Angelou
502. “I am woman phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that’s me.” — Maya Angelou
503. “I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
504. “I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you. ’” Maya Angelou
505. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ” Maya Angelou
506. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” ~ Maya Angelou
507. “We need much less than we think we need.” ~ Maya Angelou
508. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”– Maya Angelou
509. “This a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.” Maya Angelou
510. “A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.”
511. “He watched her every move and when she left the room, his eyes allowed her reluctantly to go.”
512. “Very few people grow up”
513. “When you learn, teach," she said frequently. "When you get, give.”
514. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. – Maya Angelou
515. “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.”
516. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”- Maya Angelou
517. “This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.” – Maya Angelou
518. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” Maya Angelou
519. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.” – Maya Angelou
520. “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
521. I've learned that making a living' is not the same thing as making a "life.'"
522. “You only are free when you realize you belong no place – you belong every place – no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.”
523. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou
524. words to encourage you by Maya Angelou
525. “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” - Maya Angelou
526. “If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” — Maya Angelou
527. I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity. Maya Angelou
528. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. - Maya Angelou
529. “We live the hopes of the suffragettes and the demands of Maya Angelou.” ‒ Deborah Frances-White
530. “A Rock, A River, A Tree
531. “A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.”
532. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou
533. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” ~ Maya Angelou
534. Monday Motivation: Maya Angelou
535. “I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”
536. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Civil rights activist Maya Angelou
537. “If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” — Maya Angelou
538. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” — Maya Angelou
539. “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.” -Maya Angelou dark green background
540. One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.” —Maya Angelou
541. “To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents”
542. “It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of Blackness.”
543. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ~ Maya Angelou
544. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
545. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. - Maya Angelou
546. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage. you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” - Maya Angelou
547. “As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”
548. My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. —Maya Angelou
549. “I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.”
550. “Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
551. “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.”
552. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
553. “Did you want to see me broken?
554. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” – Maya Angelou
555. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou
556. “I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” — Maya Angelou
557. “All great achievements require time.” ~ Maya Angelou
558. “All great achievements require time.”- Maya Angelou
559. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
560. “Faith is the evidence of the unseen.”
561. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
562. I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve. —Maya Angelou
563. “There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
564. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. – Maya Angelou
565. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. - Maya Angelou
566. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou
567. “If i am not good to myself. how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?” ― Maya Angelou
568. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” ―Maya Angelou
569. “Just like moons and suns,
570. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”
571. “A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.”
572. “I looked up the way I was going and back the way I come and since I wasn't satisfied I stepped off and [found] me a new path.”
573. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
574. “His day is done.
575. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.” —Maya Angelou
576. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
577. “Determine to live life with flair and