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Best Maya Angelou Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

All great achievements require time.

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry… but it can introduce the idea that we may even become friends.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

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

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”

“This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.”

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The most important motive for work in the school and in life is the pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

A leader... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

"The divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the like; and by these the wing of the soul is nourished and grows apace."

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

To me the worst thing seems to be for a school principally to work with methods of fear, force, and artificial authority.

“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”

"Prayed for inner beauty and harmony of soul and body over material wealth."

Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent.

It is easy to do things that are bad and unbeneficial to oneself, but it is extremely difficult, indeed, to do things that are beneficial and good.

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousand fold.”