Inspirational Quotes by Maya Angelou

We need much less than we think we need.

— Maya Angelou

We are more alike than unalike.

— Maya Angelou

No one has ever become poor from giving.

— Maya Angelou

I am the dream and the hope of the slave

— Maya Angelou

“Very few people grow up”

— Maya Angelou

Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you.

— Maya Angelou

The truth will lead me to all.

— Maya Angelou

Forgive yourself - no one else will.

— Maya Angelou

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

— Maya Angelou

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

— Maya Angelou

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

— Maya Angelou

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

— Maya Angelou

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

— Maya Angelou

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

— Maya Angelou

Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

— Maya Angelou

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

— Maya Angelou

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is…

— Maya Angelou

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up…

— Maya Angelou

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray,…

— Maya Angelou

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

— Maya Angelou

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves…

— Maya Angelou

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,…

— Maya Angelou

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

— Maya Angelou

“...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of…

— Maya Angelou

We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure.…

— Maya Angelou

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Popular misquote of "You may…

— Maya Angelou

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do…

— Maya Angelou

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going…

— Maya Angelou

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our…

— Maya Angelou

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today,…

— Maya Angelou

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is…

— Maya Angelou

Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be…

— Maya Angelou

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less…

— Maya Angelou

“Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America’s great novel that ‘You Can’t Go Home Again.’ I enjoyed the book but I…

— Maya Angelou

“One morning as I was leaving, the director said I didn't have to leave the set anymore. What happened? Why did they…

— Maya Angelou

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat…

— Maya Angelou

remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right…

— Maya Angelou

At our best, we are all teachers

— Maya Angelou

Being a woman is hard work.

— Maya Angelou

All great acheivements require time.

— Maya Angelou