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"105 Maya Angelou Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 4 April 1928. Died: 28 May 2014 | Poet |

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.

Forget People Feel Them
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Beauty Delight Butterfly Admit
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Smile Love People Give
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Love Recognize Jump Hurdle
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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.

Mission Survive Thrive Passion
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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.

Courage Potential Virtue Consistency
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Time Parents Diversity Strength
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Control Event Decide Reduce
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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

Decide Right Open Heart
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.

Love Become Something Truly
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Change Attitude Like Your
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Good Anyone Else Myself
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Courage Practice Virtue Kind
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

Pain Learn When Have
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Enough Trust Love Courage
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If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Always Never Amazing Normal
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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Passion Destroy Temple Build
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Option Someone Priority Make
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A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Wise Victim Wish Anyone
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Use More Have Creativity
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.

Life Breath Moment Away
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Lucky Solitary Fantasy Transform
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

World Cause Solve Problem
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Success Yourself How You
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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

World Between Truth Fact
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I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Life Learn Through Throw
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Someone Show Time First
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Heart Care Somebody Succeed
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Agony Story Inside Greater
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Respect Insist Myself Everybody
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Hard Play Life Love
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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

Want Great Love Sacrifice Whatever
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Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Develop Courage Pick Weight
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I do my best because I’m counting on you counting on me.

Best Count Counting Because
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Best Better Know Until
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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Develop Courage Stand Enough
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
Alone Enough Prove Anybody
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Encounter Defeat Must Many
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Desire Reach Heart Wise
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You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

Going Really Know Where
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The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Children Read Simple Gratitude
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When you know you are of worth — not asking it but knowing it — you walk into a room with a particular power.

Worth Power Room Walk
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When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.

Worth Raise Voice Rude
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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 you.

Goal Love Pursue Instead
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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Road Comfortable Ahead Destination
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My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

Work Honest Think Courage
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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?”.

Stand Responsibility Somebody Surprise
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

World Love Young Grab
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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Right Possibility Invent Daily
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If one has courage, nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Courage Dim Light Shine
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Maya Angelou Quotes & Sayings