I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons… — 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
We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place… — 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
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 believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a… — 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
