Maya Angelou Quotes

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

I converted a problem into an opportunity.

I have a great amount of respect for life, and I always think that no matter how bad situations get, you can always make something out of it.

If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

Human beings will make the best out of any situation.

I've never really let any kind of negative things affect me, generally. I would take a positive out of the most desperately horrible situation.

Whatever happens, you can always make it back somehow!

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. I have several stands around here.

I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.