Maya Angelou Motivational 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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  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 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

• 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

• When you know better you do better.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Responsibility, Light

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 20, 2014

• My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.71, Random House
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  If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (1997). “The Heart of a Woman”, Bantam

• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Encounters, May

• Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

• Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Change, Path

• The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.202, Modern Library

• No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 09, 2013

• It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.18, Bantam

• I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Phenomenal Woman" l. 6 (1978)

• 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

• My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.38, Random House

• Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Nature

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

• ...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 result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Determination, Believe

• One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Running, Courage

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

• The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Life Changing

• The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.34

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