« All Preeminently Quotes
·
Maya Angelou's Page
Preeminently Quotes by Maya Angelou
1 Preeminently quote by Maya Angelou
More Quotes by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou has 789 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you…
-
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
-
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…
-
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything…
-
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
-
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,…
-
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
-
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…
-
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
-
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice…
-
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
See all 789 quotes by Maya Angelou »
More Preeminently Quotes
Popular Preeminently quotes from across the collection:
-
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
— Grover Cleveland
-
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do,…
— Maya Angelou
-
Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as…
— Henry David Thoreau
-
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
— Leon Kass
-
We make assertions and denials of what is next to [the Divine Nature], but never of It, for It is both beyond…
— Pope Dionysius
-
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which…
— William Shenstone
-
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride…
— Neal A. Maxwell
-
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits…
— John Ruskin
-
Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.
— Walter Bradford Cannon
-
In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln…
— Theodore Roosevelt
-
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just…
— Christopher Hitchens
See all Preeminently Quotes »
Browse Maya Angelou Quotes by Category