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

— Maya Angelou

252. “Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

256. “I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.”

— Maya Angelou

257. “Look what you’ve already come through! Don’t deny it. Say I’m stronger than I thought I was.”

— Maya Angelou

258. “We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.”

— Maya Angelou

259. “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

260. “I don’t trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”

— Maya Angelou

261. “It’s true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.”

— Maya Angelou

262. “Poetry gave me back my voice.”

— Maya Angelou

263. “If you’re for the right thing, you do it without thinking.”

— Maya Angelou

264. “Faith is the evidence of the unseen.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

266. “You can never be great at anything unless you love it.”

— Maya Angelou

267. “I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world’s variety and uniqueness.”

— Maya Angelou

268. “I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.”

— Maya Angelou

269. “If I’m here, I’ll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.”

— Maya Angelou

270. “Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.”

— Maya Angelou

271. “And 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

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

— Maya Angelou

273. “I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.”

— Maya Angelou

274. “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

275. “I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I’m never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.”

— Maya Angelou

276. “Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!”

— Maya Angelou

277. “Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you.”

— Maya Angelou

278. “It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.”

— Maya Angelou

279. “All God’s children need traveling shoes.”

— Maya Angelou

280. “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”

— Maya Angelou

281. “Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.”

— Maya Angelou

282. “I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.”

— Maya Angelou

283. “It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.”

— Maya Angelou

284. “I’m a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.”

— Maya Angelou

285. “Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.”

— Maya Angelou

286. “The honorary duty of a human being is to love.”

— Maya Angelou

287. “Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.”

— Maya Angelou

288. “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’”

— Maya Angelou

289. “At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.”

— Maya Angelou

290. “I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.”

— Maya Angelou

291. “Life loves the liver of it.”

— Maya Angelou

292. “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

— Maya Angelou

293. “You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.”

— Maya Angelou

294. “All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

296. “We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”

— Maya Angelou

297. “Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.”

— Maya Angelou

298. “I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

300. “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