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Inspiring Quotes by Maya Angelou
- I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage…
- I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
- Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically,…
- We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
- One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be…
- All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
- I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of…
- Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
- It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
- My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring…
- You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us,…
- Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
- For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries…
- The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may…
- The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to…
- I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.
- I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
- I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
- I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and…
- Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
- My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. — Darren Aronofsky
- For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take… — Mary Kay Ash
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov