Maya Angelou: Quotes about people

“At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.”

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.”

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you."”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

“Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.”

“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”

“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”

“I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.”

“I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.”

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

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

“The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.”

“I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.”

“Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.”

“My dear, when people show you who they are, why don't you believe them? Why must you be shown 29 times before you can see who they really are? Why can't you get it the first time?”