Maya Angelou Quotes About Positive
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I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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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.
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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
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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.
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What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
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People will never forget how you made them feel.
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Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
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I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
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What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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