Showing posts with label Maya Angelou. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maya Angelou. Show all posts

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Inspirational Quote # 67

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 66

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 65

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 64

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 63

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 62

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

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 61

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 60

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 59

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

By Maya Angelou

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Inspirational Quote # 58

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 57

Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 56

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.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 55

I believe that every person is born with talent.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 54

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 53

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 52

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 51

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

By Maya Angelou

Friday, March 20, 2009

Inspirational Quote # 50

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

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 49

I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life".

By Maya Angelou

Inspirational Quote # 48

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

By Maya Angelou