Maya Angelou Quotes - Page 2

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

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.

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.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it.

Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

All great achievements require time.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

Nothing will work unless you do.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

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.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.