Quotes by Maya Angelou

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!

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

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

All great achievements require time.

Nothing will work unless you do.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all thats in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

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

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.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

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.

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.

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.

Thats what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything youve got. Ive 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 worlds variety and uniqueness.