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Maya Angelou Quotes about Running

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Every journey begins with a single step.

Every journey begins with a single step.

Maya Angelou
Running, Journey, Hiking

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

Maya Angelou
Inspirational, Life, Running

I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

Maya Angelou
Running, Rose, World
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

Maya Angelou
Running, Humility, Thinking

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.

Maya Angelou
Running, Crazy, Book
Source: www.oprah.com

Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.

Maya Angelou
Inspiring, Running, Book

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

Maya Angelou
Running, Strong Women, Rose
Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

Maya Angelou
Motivational, Running, Courage
"Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Maya Angelou
Running, Writing, Thinking

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

Maya Angelou
Running, Feet, Black
1973 Television interview, 2 1Nov. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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.

Maya Angelou
Running, Jobs, Husband

I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

Maya Angelou
Running, Writing, Ties

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.

Maya Angelou
Running, May, Want
Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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