Maya Angelou
As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.Collection: Heart
Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.Collection: Volunteer
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.Collection: Thanksgiving
You can never be great at anything unless you love it.Collection: Inspirational
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.Collection: Inspirational
I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.Collection: Mother
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.Collection: Inspirational
If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.Collection: Life
Love recognizes no barriers.Collection: Love
I keep on dying, Because I love to liveCollection: Dying
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.Collection: Time
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.Collection: Past
The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.Collection: Joy
Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.Collection: Inspiring
I've had rainbows in my clouds.Collection: Clouds
I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.Collection: Dream
My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.Collection: Encouragement
There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.Collection: Sacrifice
We have it in us to be splendid.Collection: Splendid
Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.Collection: Jobs
There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friendsCollection: Laughter
I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.Collection: Life
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.Collection: Running
We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.Collection: Inspirational
And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."Collection: Taken
You can only accomplish what I really love. Do not take the money as a goal. Instead, pursue the things you passionate about, and do good to others can not take my eyes off youCollection: Eye
My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.Collection: Grandmother
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.Collection: Motivational
Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.Collection: Children
There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.Collection: Sleep
I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.Collection: Positive
There is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage, and it says, 'Yes I can,' ... Yes, we will overcome it all because we have the spirit to do so.Collection: Yes I Can
[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.Collection: Determination
The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.Collection: Wall
Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.Collection: Mean
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."Collection: Compassion
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.Collection: Life
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.Collection: Fall
If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.Collection: Uncles
The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.Collection: Taken
Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.Collection: Painful
If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.Collection: Moving
A mother's love liberates.Collection: Family
Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?Collection: Daughter
I sustain myself with the love of family.Collection: Inspirational
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.Collection: Ocean
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.Collection: Jobs
I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.Collection: Defeated You
At our best, we are all teachersCollection: Teacher