Maya Angelou Quotes, Running Quotes, Crazy Quotes

I love a statement by the apostle Paul, in the Book of Philippians in the Bible. I think the Corinthians had been writing to Paul, telling him that old men were chasing young women, nobody was tithing - and all that must have run Paul crazy. He wrote back and said, "If there be anything of good report, speak of these things." That's one of my principles.It's another discipline that I encourage myself to employ - to, as much as possible, say the courteous thing, and then be it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Running Quotes , Crazy Quotes

I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Mean Quotes , Thinking Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Motivational Quotes

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Funny Friend Quotes

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Being Alone Quotes

A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Country Quotes , Fighting Quotes

Being a woman is hard work.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Women Quotes

What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Running Quotes , Jobs Quotes

I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Tired Quotes

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Life Quotes , God Quotes

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Christmas Quotes , Thank You Quotes

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Indecision Quotes , Threat Quotes

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Children Quotes , Castles Quotes

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Grateful Quotes

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Courage Quotes , Practice Quotes

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Giving Quotes , Wake Up Quotes

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!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Wonderful Quotes , Teach Quotes

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Role Models Quotes , Cheerful Quotes