Maya Angelou Quotes

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

Learn to think in positive affirmations. Affirmations are any statements you make. Too often we think in negative affirmations. Negative affirmations only create more of what you say you don't want. Saying, “I hate my job,” will get you nowhere. Declaring, “I now accept a wonderful new job,” will open the channels in your consciousness to create that.

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.

I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

If you don't believe in it, you can't do it.

I don't believe in the no-win scenario

My advice to you is never stop believing.

It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.

I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.

Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you wer done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try.

Know that nothing can hinder you but yourself. If you believe you can, you can.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Those who believe they can't repel the positive; they use the negative side of their talisman. Those who believe they can repel the negative; they use the positive side.

If you don't believe you can make every putt, why bother trying?

I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear.

Believe in yourself no matter what anyone says

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.

Now when I get auditions, I choose to believe that I am an amazing actor.

Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.