“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.”
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Maya Angelou 247
American author and poet 1928–2014Related quotes
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,
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Variant: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
“You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Never forget what you would rather forget!”
Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni
“You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.”
Source: The Troubled Man
Quoted in "Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business" in page=113.