Top 500 Maya Angelou Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

208. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

211. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— 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. “This is my life. It is my one time to be me. I want to experience every good thing.”

— Maya Angelou

217. “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

218. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

220. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

225. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

227. “Being a woman is hard work.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

229. “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

230. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

233. “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

234. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

236. “Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.”

— Maya Angelou

237. “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

238. “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

239. “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

240. “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

241. “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 with but from whom I can learn something.”

— Maya Angelou

242. “A mother’s love liberates.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

249. “Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.”

— Maya Angelou

250. “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