#41 ”I’m careful about the words I use, because I know that my brain will remember and tell them back to me.” #40 ”We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it.” I want to be excellent at whatever I do.” #39 ”I am not competing with anyone other than myself. #38 ”Love can be used for anything you can explain, any good thing that you can explain.” #37 ”The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. #36 ”You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” #35 ”Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” #34 ”If you don’t like something, change it. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.” ( Oprah) #32 ”I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it.” #31 ”I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.” #30 ”Pretty women wonder where my secret Images #29 ”I can be changed by what happens to me. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.” #28 ”Life is going to give you just what you put in it. #27 ”I believe that every person is born with talent.”
#26 ”If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.” #25 ”There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.” #24 ”All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart.” #23 ”When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.” #22 ”Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” #21 ”I think many people live in complete denial of the fact that they are going to die. #20 ”Love is that condition in the healing spirit so profound that it allows us to forgive.” #19 ”As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.” #17 ”If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” #15 ”A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” #14 ”You don’t have to be so jaded and think you have all the answers-that’s boring.” ( Vice) #13 ”At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”
#12 ”Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.” #11 ”While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.” #10 ”Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.” #9 ”If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you’ll get.” #8 ”It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. It means that I’m still learning and that I’m able to forgive.” ( Harvard Business Review) #6 ”Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” #5 ”I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”
#4 ”Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.” #3 ”Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.” #2 ”A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. #1 ”A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.” List of 45 Maya Angelou Quotes About Women & Life She died on May 28, 2014, in North Carolina. In 2010, Angelou was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Since 1999, she had taught at Wake Forest University at Winston-Salem. Maya recited her poem, “On the Pulse of Morning,” at the presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton in 1993. In 1969, Angelou published her first autobiography called ”I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” In 1959, she became the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Maya Angelou was an American poet best known for her memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.