You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible…We may encounter many defeats but we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Can I do it? I'd rather not try and fail." "That's stupid talk, Maya. Every try will not succeed. But if you're… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something -… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You may encounter many defeat, but you must not be defeated. Because it maybe necessary to encounter the defeats, so can know… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that… — 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
