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Top 32 Maya Angelou Quotes
Updated: October 2026
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
I sustain myself with the love of family.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
The ache for home lives in all of us.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without it, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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.
Nothing will work unless you do.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud.
This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.