We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are. Maya Angelou More Quotes by Maya Angelou More Quotes From Maya Angelou I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. Maya Angelou decision heart inspirational 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. Maya Angelou motivational positive inspirational Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. Maya Angelou vacation jobs peace 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. Maya Angelou heart inspirational life I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. Maya Angelou communication writing life You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for Maya Angelou willing sacrifice life Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you. Maya Angelou wall ignorance thinking You can never be great at anything unless you love it. Maya Angelou inspiring inspirational Being a woman is hard work. Maya Angelou women hard-work inspiring When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense. Maya Angelou age birthday men If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. Maya Angelou old-love soul life 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. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe. Maya Angelou time war children If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. Maya Angelou mother thank-you children Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life. Maya Angelou invisible spiritual life I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come. Maya Angelou sibling brother believe I wouldn't trade anything for my story now. Maya Angelou storytelling trade stories In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present. Maya Angelou time country art One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Maya Angelou courage running motivational Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. Maya Angelou practice bravery courage 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 wise doe life
