Top 500 Maya Angelou Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.”

— Maya Angelou

202. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

204. “Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

209. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

212. “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.”

— Maya Angelou

213. “Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

216. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

218. “Being a woman is hard work.”

— Maya Angelou

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

223. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

227. “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

228. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

230. “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

231. “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

232. “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

233. “A mother’s love liberates.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

235. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

241. “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

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

244. “Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.”

— Maya Angelou

245. “As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.”

— Maya Angelou

246. “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

247. “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

248. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

— Maya Angelou

249. “We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.”

— Maya Angelou

250. “There is no place where God is not.”

— Maya Angelou