“The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me, because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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
Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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 Image
