Maya Angelou Zitate

„Ich habe die Erfahrung gemacht, dass Menschen vergessen, was du gesagt und was du getan hast. Sie vergessen aber nie, wie sie sich bei dir gefühlt haben.“

„Wir staunen über die Schönheit eines Schmetterlings, aber erkennen die Veränderungen so selten an, durch die er gehen musste, um so schön zu werden.“

„Ich vertraue Menschen nicht, die sich selbst nicht lieben, aber mir sagen: „Ich liebe Dich.“ Es gibt einen alten afrikanischen Spruch: Sei vorsichtig, wenn ein nackter Mensch Dir ein T-Shirt anbietet.“

„Es gibt keine größere Qual, als eine unerzählte Geschichte in Dir herumzutragen.“

„Versuche, ein Regenbogen in den Wolken eines anderen zu sein.“

„Ich habe gelernt, dass die Leute vergessen, was Sie gesagt haben, die Leute vergessen, was Sie getan haben, aber nie vergessen, wie sie sich bei Ihnen fühlten.“

„Ich traue Menschen nicht, die sich nicht mögen und sage zu mir: "Ich mag dich."“

„Deine Kreativität kannst Du nie aufbrauchen. Je mehr Du sie benutzt, desto kreativer bist Du.“

„Du kannst nicht alle Ereignisse kontrollieren, die Dir wiederfahren. Aber Du kannst entscheiden, Dich nicht von ihnen einschränken zu lassen.“

„Es gibt keine größere Qual, als eine unerzählte Geschichte in Dir herumzutragen.“

„Courage ist der wichtigste aller Werte, denn ohne ihn kannst Du auch alle anderen nicht konsequent leben.“

„Wenn Du etwas nicht magst, ändere es. Wenn Du es nicht ändern kannst, ändere Deine Einstellung. Beschwere Dich nicht.“

„Erfolgreich zu sein bedeutet, Dich zu mögen; zu mögen, was Du tust und zu mögen, wie Du es tust.“

„Eines der größten Geschenke, die Du Dir selbst machen kannst: vergeben. Vergib jedem.“

„Wenn du immer versuchst normal zu sein, wirst du niemals erfahren, wie besonders du sein kannst.“

„Mache niemanden zu Deiner Priorität, für den Du nur eine Option bist.“

„Wenn Du etwas nicht magst, ändere es. Wenn Du es nicht ändern kannst, ändere Deine Einstellung. Beschwere Dich nicht.“

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

“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.”

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

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

“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”

“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.”

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

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

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

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

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

“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.”

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

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”

“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.”

“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”

“You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.”

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it;
to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.”

“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.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

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

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

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”

“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”

“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.”

“I am a Woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
that's me.”

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

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”