Maya Angelou Positive Quotes

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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

• Don't bring negative to my door.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

• 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

• 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

• It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Struggle, Rights

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

• 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

• You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

• Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Mean, Voice

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2016
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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 can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

• Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Sacrifice, Able

  Twitter post from Jul 23, 2015

• I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Intelligent, Giving

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

• Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Hate

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2017

• Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Moving On, Sad

• 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

• I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Breathing, Long

• I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 26, 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

• What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Responsibility, Space

• What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Maya Angelou (1993). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, Random House Canada

• Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Self, Doe

  1974 Gather Together In My Name, ch.6.

• 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

• Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Writing, Use

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

• You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Forgiveness, Mean

• Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Made, Turns

  1977 Defining work. Interview in Black Scholar, Jan-Feb. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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