Maya Angelou Quotes About Motivational
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.
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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
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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!
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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
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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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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.
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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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Nothing will work unless you do.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.
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When you know better you do better.
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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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Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
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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.
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People will never forget how you made them feel.
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
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