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Maya Angelou Quotes about Giving

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Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you. So try to live your life in a way that you will

Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you. So try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. Take up the battle. Take it up. It’s yours. This is your life. This is your world.

Regret, Years, Giving

Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

Giving

"Maya Angelou on How to Throw a Lifelong Party". Interview with Pamela Johnson, www.essence.com. May 28, 2014.

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

Giving, Resentment, Burden

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 21, 2015

No one has ever become poor from giving.

Christmas, Giving, Poor

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.

Giving, Teach, Ifs

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Wise, Giving, Cherish

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Positive, Intelligent, Giving

Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

Reading, Writing, Giving

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 12, 2013

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

Reading, Giving, Looks

Twitter post from Oct 26, 2016

I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

Defeated You, Giving, Trying

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 13, 2010

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

Giving, Challenges, Accepting

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

Reality, Giving, Failing

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.

Giving, Saying Thank You, Greatest Gifts

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 12, 2014

Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.

Baby, Teaching, Giving

Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters

Brother, Knowing, Giving

Maya Angelou, “The Black Family Pledge”

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

Air, Giving, Needs

Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.253, Random House

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

Graduation, Giving, Courageous

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

Home, Giving, Dont Care

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.203, Modern Library

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.'

Giving, Wake Up, Becoming

Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

Mistake, Mean, Giving

I like good food. People want a certain taste, but when they're offered something else, they'll overeat. If they really are looking for chicken and someone gives them pork chops, they'll say, "I will have another." And that's because their satisfaction is not reached. So I thought I would make great food, but eat less of it. I tried it and I've taken off over 40 pounds.

Taken, People, Giving

Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.

Nice, Giving, Needs

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Second Chance, Giving, Sometimes

The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.

Thinking, Ideas, Giving

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 18, 2014

Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.

Responsibility, Space, Giving

Beautifully Said Magazine Interview, beautifullysmagazine.com.

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