Maya Angelou Quotes

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me.

You can go through the process. You can also change. You can do both. Uh, you can do one, the other, or both. And I think it depends on the individual.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

You've got to make sure every decision you make is right for you as a person. If you think you can go to a better club than the one you're at, then, regardless of what anyone says, you should go.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

Not just whether but how we find our way truly matters.

Minute by minute, you decide who you are and who you're likely to be. You make the choices hour by hour, just in the present. I don't believe there's some roadmap laid out that we're headed towards.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Follow your own path.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

It wasn't the tattoo that had changed her, had given her repossession of her body. It was her actions, her choices. It was finding the path when it looked like there weren't any paths to be found.

When I realized I could actually make my decisions, it was a very strange feeling. It's like a switch went off in my brain, like, "Oh, then why am I doing this? I don't enjoy this, so I'm just gonna stop doing this."

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose? This is something only you can decide.

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.

I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

I used to just let people tell me what to do. I didn't really have a mind of my own, and I couldn't really say yes or no to things because I didn't really know what I wanted, but now I feel really confident in the fact that I can really be distinctive on what I want and how I want to do things.