Top 500 Maya Angelou Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 5 of 10

201. “You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.”

— Maya Angelou

202. “Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.”

— Maya Angelou

203. “Determine to live life with flair and laughter.”

— Maya Angelou

204. “We need much less than we think we need.”

— Maya Angelou

205. “A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.”

— Maya Angelou

206. “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”

— Maya Angelou

207. “We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.”

— Maya Angelou

208. “I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.”

— Maya Angelou

209. “We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.”

— Maya Angelou

210. “No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.”

— Maya Angelou

211. “The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.”

— Maya Angelou

212. “Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.”

— Maya Angelou

213. “The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.”

— Maya Angelou

214. “This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.”

— Maya Angelou

215. “Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one’s bones and cragginess of one’s once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.”

— Maya Angelou

216. “You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.”

— Maya Angelou

217. “The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”

— Maya Angelou

218. “Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold, that’s ego. Love liberates.”

— Maya Angelou

219. “Make 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.”

— Maya Angelou

220. “I try to see every day as a celebration.”

— Maya Angelou

221. “Forgive yourself – no one else will.”

— Maya Angelou

222. “If you have, give. If you learn, teach.”

— Maya Angelou

223. “Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”

— Maya Angelou

224. “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

225. “A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.”

— Maya Angelou

226. “Being a woman is hard work.”

— Maya Angelou

227. “Give yourself time just to be with yourself.”

— Maya Angelou

228. “Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister’s eyes, Into your brother’s face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning.”

— Maya Angelou

229. “It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.”

— Maya Angelou

230. “I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.”

— Maya Angelou

231. “I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.”

— Maya Angelou

232. “My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.”

— Maya Angelou

233. “Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.”

— Maya Angelou

234. “I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.”

— Maya Angelou

235. “Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.”

— Maya Angelou

236. “The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.”

— Maya Angelou

237. “I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”

— Maya Angelou

238. “Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don’t agree but I can learn something.”

— Maya Angelou

239. “A mother’s love liberates.”

— Maya Angelou

240. “When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.”

— Maya Angelou

241. “I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”

— Maya Angelou

242. “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”

— Maya Angelou

243. “Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.”

— Maya Angelou

244. “Age is nothing; waking up is everything.”

— Maya Angelou

245. “Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”

— Maya Angelou

246. “I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”

— Maya Angelou

247. “Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.”

— Maya Angelou

248. “Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what.”

— Maya Angelou

249. “You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I’ve never been so strong. Now I’m where I belong.”

— Maya Angelou

250. “Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.”

— Maya Angelou