Maya Angelou Quotes

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation which is not nurturing to the whole woman.