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.
MA
Maya AngelouFacebook post (July 4, 2011)
About Maya Angelou
American poet and memoirist, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. (1928-2014)
More from Maya Angelou
- Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014)
- You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.Letter to My Daughter (2009)
- Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.Interview in USA Today (March 5, 1988)
- You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.1982 interview, in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)
- If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)
- Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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- Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.Gary Vaynerchuk
- Legacy is greater than currency.Gary Vaynerchuk
- Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.Abraham Lincoln
- With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.Abraham Lincoln
- Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.George Washington
- Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Theodore Roosevelt
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