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Own Quotes by Maya Angelou
- Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
- I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others…
- I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings,…
- I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
- I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready…
- I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm…
- I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.
- The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give…
- I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others…
- I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
- Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was…
- When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.
- The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
- I got my own back.
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov