Maya Angelou was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetries, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows, and wrote some of the best quotes for us.

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Here is the list of Best Maya Angelou Quotes

1. ”Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

2. ”I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.”

3. ”Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

4. ”Stand up straight and realise who you are. That you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of god. Stand up straight.”

5. ”I got my own back.”

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

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

8. ”Determine to live life with flair and laughter.”

9. ”I’ve learnt that I still have A lot to learn.”

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

11. ”I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it. I believe that life loves the liver of it. I live it.”

12. ”Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”

13. ”I created myself, and I taught myself to much.”

14. ”Faith is the evidence of the unseen.”

15. ”We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”

16. ”Have enough courage to trust love one more time, and always one more time.”

17. ”Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.”

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

19. ”I believe that every person is born with talent.”

20. ”We are only blind as we want to be.”

21. ”The only thing is, that people have to develop courage.”

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

23. ”I know for sure that love saves me and that it’s here to save us all.”

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

25. ”All great achievements require time.”

26. ”Love is like a virus. It can happen anybody at any time.”

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

28. ”Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.”

29. ”If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”

30. ”If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”

31. ”If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”

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

33. ”Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but it has not solved one yet.”

34. ”Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I’m with you kid let’s go.”

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

36. ”There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”

37. ”Having courage does not mean we are unafraid.”

38. ”When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Conclusion

When I examine myself and my methods of thoughts, I come to the conclusion that these thoughts teach us the value of time, and tells us about how to behave with others and how to judge the people in a proper manner. And tells us about the reality of life.

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