The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style. — 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
The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it. — 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
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage allows the successful woman to fail- and learn powerful lessons- from the failure- so that in the end, she didn't fail… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can only accomplish what I really love. Do not take the money as a goal. Instead, pursue the things you passionate… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good… — 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
“Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“He was right. I would only eke out a living as a singer. The limited success I had, which Bailey recognized, stemmed… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. — 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
