27 The Best Maya Angelou Quotes

1. "I do my best because i’m counting on you counting on me." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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2. "If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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3. "Nothing will work unless you do." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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4. "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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5. "Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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6. "Only equals can become friends." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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7. "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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8. "You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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9. "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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10. "The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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11. "You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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12. "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." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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13. "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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14. "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." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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15. "If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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16. "When you know you are of worth — not asking it but knowing it — you walk into a room with a particular power." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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17. "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." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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18. "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." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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19. "My great blessing is my son, but i have daughters. I have white ones and black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have asian ones, i have jewish ones, i have muslim ones." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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20. "Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!" (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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21. "You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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22. "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." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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23. "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?”." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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24. "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." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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25. "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." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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26. "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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27. "Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet." (Maya Angelou) Click to tweet

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