Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Maya Angelou.
Top 25 Maya Angelou Quotes and Sayings
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.