Maya Angelou Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Maya Angelou
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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Everything has rhythm. everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure truth.
- Maya Angelou
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou
People Sayings
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
I honor all people and cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love the contradictions of people
- Jewel
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Affirmation:
All people are my heart-felt brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Most people are more skilled at begging God than at thanking God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
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