Maya Angelou Inspirational Quotes

• 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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  My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015
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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

• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2016

• Don't bring negative to my door.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude
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  Nothing will work unless you do.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2017
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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

• I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009
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  Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017
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  One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

• 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

• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

• When you know better you do better.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Moving On, Thank You

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 06, 2010

• Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Be Good

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

• You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Moving On

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2017

• 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

• It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2016

• If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Smile

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013

• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Moving On, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 14, 2013

• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

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

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