Maya Angelou

There is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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

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.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Those who trust us educate us.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

It’s hard to have it all. And if you’re compromising through one phase of your journey, you’re not giving it all up, you’re compromising for that phase

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.