Maya Angelou Quotes About Purpose

• People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.

  Maya Angelou

  Jobs, People, Purpose

• Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Growing Up, Years

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

• Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

  Maya Angelou

  Jobs, Mean, Doe

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