Maya Angelou citations

„Nous nous délectons de la beauté du papillon, mais nous admettons rarement les changements qu’il a subi pour atteindre cette beauté.“

—  Maya Angelou

„Il faut avoir assez de courage pour faire confiance à l'amour une fois de plus et toujours une fois de plus.“

—  Maya Angelou

„La clef du succès, c'est de s’aimer soi-même, d’aimer ce que l'on fait et d’aimer la façon dont on le fait.“

—  Maya Angelou

„A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself“

—  Maya Angelou

„You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.“

—  Maya Angelou

„Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!“

—  Maya Angelou

„Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.“

—  Maya Angelou

„When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.“

—  Maya Angelou

„When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.“

—  Maya Angelou

„Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.“

—  Maya Angelou

„Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible…We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.“

—  Maya Angelou

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

—  Maya Angelou

This is a very close paraphrase of a quotation attributed to Carl Buehner in a book published many years earlier - “They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.” quoted in Richard Evans' Quote Book, 1971, Publisher's Press, ASIN: B000TV5WBW, although it is widely (mis)attributed to Angelou in her book Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 263,
Misattributed
Variante: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.

„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.“

—  Maya Angelou

„A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.“

—  Maya Angelou

„People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.“

—  Maya Angelou, livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

„You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.“

—  Maya Angelou

„I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.“

—  Maya Angelou

„Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.“

—  Maya Angelou, livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

„My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.“

—  Maya Angelou

Shared on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MayaAngelou/posts/10150251846629796, July 4, 2011