- If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.- Maya Angelou
- If someone tells you who they are, believe them. – Maya Angelou
- 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. – Maya Angelou
- Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. – Maya Angelou
- Courage is fear that has said its prayers. – Maya Angelou
- Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. – Maya Angelou
- History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou
- I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. – Maya Angelou
- Nothing will work unless you do. – Maya Angelou
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
- There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou
- There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. – Maya Angelou
- When you learn, teach. When you get, give. – Maya Angelou
- You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou
