Maya Angelou Quotes

I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

I think you can do anything you put your mind to. I think your mind is the worst thing you can use as a reason to not do something.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

I've really fought to get into rooms, and I'm a big believer in auditioning. It's hard, because I'm insecure, but I have an intense desire to prove myself to people.

I'm just going to have to keep working on what I have to and keep chasing my goals.

I think being in the public eye has made me more determined than other people to show that I do belong at the top, and I believe I am one of the hardest-working people at the rink. I feel like I have always been that way, but sometimes I just get in my own way.

I've always tried to make the impossible turn possible for me.

If you want to be the best, you can't take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it's too early, and your body tells you you're a little too sore, but you've got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you're striving for.

I just want to keep working hard. I just want to keep improving myself. And I just want to prove people that I can play in the real game.

It was never an option to not succeed.

... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

People should know whatever it is you love to do. I am a living testament to the fact that you can do it. You can do whatever it is you put your mind to and you can do it in stilettos.

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

The people who put you down don't have to stop you from chasing your dreams. Stand up, and prove them wrong.

When you've something to fight for, you get the best out of yourself.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

If you sell yourself short before you even start, you'll never know how far you could have gone. Ambition is a wonderful thing and has gotten me farther than I ever thought I'd go.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.