One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. — 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,… — 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
Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them, — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When women take care of their health they become their own best friend. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you. — 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
They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything. — 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