Maya Angelou Quotes About Humility

• It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Humility, Responsibility, Important

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 05, 2013

• We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

  Maya Angelou

  Forgiveness, Peace, Attitude

• You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Humility, Want, Modesty

• Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

  Maya Angelou

  Humility, Compassion, Modesty

• I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.

  Maya Angelou

  Humility, People, Doe

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Humility, Responsibility

  Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

• Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Humility, Thinking

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