Top 12 Maya Angelou Quotes

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

- Maya Angelou

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

- Maya Angelou

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

- Maya Angelou

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

- Maya Angelou

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.

- 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

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

All great achievements require time

- Maya Angelou

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

- Maya Angelou

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

- Maya Angelou

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

- Maya Angelou

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.

- Maya Angelou