33 Maya Angelou Quotes To Inspire Personal Growth

This collection of quotes by Maya Angelou will help you navigate life’s challenges with grace and courage.

Use these quotes to inspire personal growth, develop empathy, and celebrate the brilliance of resilience.

General Information about Maya Angelou

Top 10 Maya Angelou Quotes

1. “Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

2. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou

3. “All great achievements require time.” – Maya Angelou

4. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” – Maya Angelou

5. “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” – Maya Angelou

6. “I believe that every person is born with talent.” – Maya Angelou

7. “At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.” – Maya Angelou

8. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

9. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

10. “I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.” – Maya Angelou

Inspirational Maya Angelou Quotes About Hope

11. “While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else is also God’s creation.” – Maya Angelou

12. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou

13. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou

Uplifting Maya Angelou Quotes About Loving Others

14. “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

15. “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

16. “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” – Maya Angelou

17. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.” – Maya Angelou

18. “A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.” – Maya Angelou

19. “Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” – Maya Angelou

20. 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.” – Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou Quotes about Love

21. “You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.”‘ – Maya Angelou

22. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou

23. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou

24. “Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.” – Maya Angelou

25. “It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.” – Maya Angelou

Heart Warming Maya Angelou Quotes

26. “If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.” ― Maya Angelou

27. “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!” ― Maya Angelou

28. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” ― Maya Angelou

29. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ― Maya Angelou

30. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ― Maya Angelou

31. “If you are going down a road and don’t like what’s in front of you, and look behind you and don’t like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!” ― Maya Angelou

32. “Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.” ― Maya Angelou

33. “Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.” ― Maya Angelou