Maya Angelou Want Quotations

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be ...

Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

We are only as blind as we want to be.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.

Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.