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Work Quotes by Maya Angelou
- 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…
- Nothing will work unless you do.
- 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…
- In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen…
- On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin…
- I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for…
- I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I…
- Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and…
- I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take…
- ...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the…
- I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and…
- Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.
- remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do…
- All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one…
- People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is…
- Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.
- I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
- Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.
- I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is…
- Being a woman is hard work.
- I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives the mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach