Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Life likes to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go!” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have… — 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
