Famous Quotes

Maya Angelou

"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."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

"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."

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

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

"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."

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

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

"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."

"Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."

"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."

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

"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

"You 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."

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

"Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. "

"Any 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."

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