Maya Angelou Quotes About Inspiration

• You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (1994). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, Random House Incorporated
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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 how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014
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  Nothing will work unless you do.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2017

• I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Second Chance

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2013

• Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 06, 2011
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  We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 15, 2013

• If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Broken Heart

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 29, 2010

• To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

  Maya Angelou

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.49, Modern Library

• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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