Maya Angelou Quotes

Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the commitment to fill this day with meaningful richness and purposeful effort. This is your day to live, so do so with vigor and enthusiasm.

You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.

I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.

The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

Life is too short to worry about anything

You've got to make sure that you make the best of the day that you're in.

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

I wish everyone could wake up with a birdie on your shoulder, reminding them that this could be your last day. As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present. Savor every moment and go after your dreams. Be relentless in pursuing your happiness.

I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.

Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.

It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

You deserve a great life. I want to see you become unreasonably happy. And you can. And you will.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.