"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant." — Maya Angelou
"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant."
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Maya Angelou
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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou has 760 quotes on this site.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
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I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart.…
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I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001…
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Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper…
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You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are…
— Christian Dior
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your…
— Thomas Brooks
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The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
— Andre Simon
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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most…
— Henry Fielding
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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an…
— Robert Grudin
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When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the…
— Alistair Cooke
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