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Maya Angelou was many things. A poet. A memoirist. A civil rights activist. Someone whose words, speeches and kind wisdom have touched millions of hearts and souls. And in today\u2019s post I want to share 110 of the most inspirational, meaningful and powerful Maya Angelou\u2019s quotes. I hope you\u2019ll find something here to give you courage if you need it, hope and strength when times are tough and the motivation to live your life the way you deep down want it to be.

Inspirational Maya Angelou Quotes on Courage<\/h2> \u201cYou may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.\u201d \u201cCourage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can\u2019t practice any other virtue consistently.\u201d \u201cEvery storm runs out of rain.\u201d \u201cI did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn\u2019t run away \u2013 I rose right where I\u2019d been knocked down. And then that\u2019s how you get to know yourself.\u201d \u201cYou 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\u2019ll rise!\u201d \u201cI can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.\u201d \u201cNothing can dim the light which shines from within.\u201d \u201cDevelop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.\u201d \u201cYou may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.\u201d \u201cHave enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.\u201d \u201cHope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.\u201d \u201cYou have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don\u2019t whine! Don\u2019t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.\u201d \u201cShe comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.\u201d \u201cI believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.\u201d \u201cBitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.\u201d \u201cIf I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing \u2013 dying \u2013 is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?\u201d \u201cThe quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.\u201d \u201cWhining is just unbecoming.\u201d \u201cAll great achievements require time.\u201d \u201cAsk for what you want and be prepared to get it!\u201d

Maya Angelou Quotes About Women and Change<\/h2> \u201cEach time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.\u201d \u201cIf you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.\u201d \u201cStepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation which is not nurturing to the whole woman.\u201d \u201cContinue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you\u2019ve chosen the wisest thing, go out and try to achieve it. Be it.\u201d \u201cYou alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.\u201d \u201cWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.\u201d \u201cI love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life\u2019s a bitch. You\u2019ve got to go out and kick ass.\u201d \u201cIf you don\u2019t like something, change it. If you can\u2019t change it, change your attitude.\u201d \u201cThe need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.\u201d \u201cWhat you\u2019re supposed to do when you don\u2019t like a thing is change it. If you can\u2019t change it, change the way you think about it. Don\u2019t complain.\u201d \u201cMake every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.\u201d \u201cIf you are going down a road and don\u2019t like what\u2019s in front of you, and look behind you and don\u2019t like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!\u201d \u201cWe cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate \u2013 thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.\u201d \u201cThe idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It\u2019s fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don\u2019t think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.\u201d \u201cIf our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.\u201d \u201cYou are the sum total of everything you\u2019ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot \u2013 it\u2019s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.\u201d \u201cIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.\u201d \u201cI am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.\u201d \u201cI am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.\u201d \u201cYou have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that.\u201d \u201cWhen you know you are of worth \u2013 not asking it but knowing it \u2013 you walk into a room with a particular power.\u201d \u201cYou only are free when you realize you belong no place \u2013 you belong every place \u2013 no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.\u201d \u201cPrejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.\u201d

Maya Angelou Quotes on Love<\/h2> \u201cLove recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.\u201d \u201cIn all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.\u201d \u201cTo those who have given up on love: I say, \u2018Trust life a little bit.’\u201d \u201cWe are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.\u201d \u201cLove liberates. It doesn\u2019t just hold, that\u2019s ego. Love liberates.\u201d \u201cIf we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.\u201d \u201cSuddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.\u201d \u201cThe desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.\u201d \u201cFirst best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.\u201d \u201cIf you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.\u201d \u201cI am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love.\u201d \u201cWhen we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.\u201d \u201cOne must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.\u201d \u201cIf you want to liberate someone, love them. Not be in love with them \u2013 that\u2019s dangerous.\u201d \u201cWe need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.\u201d \u201cIf we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.\u201d \u201cI have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t trust people who don\u2019t love themselves and tell me, \u2018I love you.\u2019 There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.\u201d \u201cLove is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.\u201d \u201cWhatever 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.\u201d \u201cThe honorary duty of a human being is to love.\u201d \u201cNever make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.\u201d

Maya Angelou Quotes on Success and Motivation<\/h2> \u201cDo the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.\u201d \u201cSuccess is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.\u201d \u201cNothing will work unless you do.\u201d \u201cMy 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.\u201d \u201cYou can\u2019t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.\u201d \u201cIn order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.\u201d \u201cYou can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don\u2019t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can\u2019t take their eyes off of you.\u201d \u201cThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.\u201d \u201cWhen you learn, teach. When you get, give.\u201d \u201cIts not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.\u201d \u201cIf you\u2019re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can\u2019t be erased.\u201d \u201cEvery journey begins with a single step.\u201d \u201cYour belief and your work will speak for you.\u201d \u201cI believe that every person is born with talent.\u201d \u201cSurviving is important. Thriving is elegant.\u201d \u201cNot everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get out there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you\u2019re just stretching your soul.\u201d \u201cCreativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don\u2019t understand but something I\u2019m able to harness and use.\u201d \u201cMaking a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.\u201d \u201cWhen I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.\u201d \u201cAny book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.\u201d \u201cAchievement brings its own anticlimax.\u201d \u201cYour legacy is every life you\u2019ve ever touched.\u201d

Maya Angelou Quotes About a Life Well Lived<\/h2> \u201cI\u2019ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.\u201d \u201cWhen someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.\u201d \u201cTry to be a rainbow in someone\u2019s cloud.\u201d \u201cMy 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.\u201d \u201cWe spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.\u201d \u201cForgiveness is a gift you give yourself.\u201d \u201cIf you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.\u201d \u201cOpen your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.\u201d \u201cThis is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.\u201d \u201cLife is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.\u201d \u201cDetermine to live life with flair and laughter.\u201d \u201cIf I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?\u201d \u201cHate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.\u201d \u201cMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve learned that even when I have pains, I don\u2019t have to be one.\u201d \u201cLet gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.\u201d \u201cLife loves the liver of it.\u201d \u201cWhen we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.\u201d \u201cWe need much less than we think we need.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t trust anyone who doesn\u2019t laugh.\u201d \u201cEach one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.\u201d \u201cNo matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.\u201d Want more uplifting inspiration and wisdom? <\/strong>Then have a look at the best Dolly Parton quotes<\/a>, these workplace quotes by women<\/a> and also this one with lots of uplifting quotes<\/a>. <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n \n \n

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