Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for — 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
Ive learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves… — 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
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
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The resignation of its inhabitants encouraged me to relax. They showed me a contentment based on the belief that nothing more was… — 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
Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it. — 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
Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong. — 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
“Hadn't I, always, but ever and ever, thought that life was just one great risk for the living?” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing. — 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
