I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
