Success Quote by Maya Angelou — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.”

“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.”

“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”

“Soft you day, be velvet soft,”

“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”

“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”

“Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

“Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.”

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.”