Phenomenal Woman Quotes:

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.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Mother, Phenomenal Woman, Grandmother

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Cute, Fashion, Women, Phenomenal Woman, Fashion Model

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Moving On, Inspirational Strength, Strength Of Will

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Feminist, International Women's Day

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Encounters, May, Overcoming, Make People Feel Better, Perserverance

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

- Maya Angelou

source: Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Life Philosophy, Celebrate Life

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Jobs, Needs, Persons, Phenomenal Woman

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.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Heart, Giving, Caged, Phenomenal Woman

It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

- Maya Angelou

source: Maya Angelou (2013). “And Still I Rise”, p.16, Hachette UK

topic: Hair, Hands, Needs, Phenomenal Woman

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Life, Careers, Chances In Life, Inspirational Career

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

- Maya Angelou

source: Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.135, Random House

topic: Eye, Fire, Swings, Phenomenal Woman

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Voice, Might, Listen To Yourself, Voice Of God, Phenomenal Woman

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Spiritual Success, Life Motivation

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Life, Inspiring, Art, Life Is Precious, Phenomenal Woman

Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Giving, Resentment, Burden, Relieved, Love And Courage

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring, You Make Me Happy, Phenomenal Woman

Don't bring negative to my door.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Attitude, Phenomenal Woman, Negative People

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Children, Grandmother, Adults, Child Of God, Mighty God

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 03, 2011

topic: Love, Life, Heart, Phenomenal Woman, Listen To Yourself

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Love, Inspiring, Moving On, Inspirational Courage, Love And Courage

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Strength, Educational, Teaching, Individual Differences, Inspirational Diversity

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Children, Responsibility, Tomorrow, Personal Responsibility, Phenomenal Woman

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Life, Taken, Fear None, Phenomenal Woman

Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 12, 2014

topic: Giving, Saying Thank You, Greatest Gifts, Thank You God, Phenomenal Woman

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

- Maya Angelou

topic: I Respect Myself, Truth Of Life, Be Respectful, Mutual Respect, Phenomenal Woman

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Positive, Moving On, Powerful, Make You Cry, Courage To Change

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Humanity, Done, Wonderful, Phenomenal Woman, End Of Life

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 05, 2012

topic: Spiritual, Loneliness, Weather, Feeling Lonely, We Need Each Other

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

- Maya Angelou

source: Twitter post from Apr 30, 2014

topic: Faith, God, Christian, Mighty God, Phenomenal Woman

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouragement, Inflicting Pain, Phenomenal Woman

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Makes You Stronger, Courage To Change

Nothing will work unless you do.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On, Recipe For Success, Phenomenal Woman

All great achievements require time.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Success, Encouraging, Perseverance, Inspirational Weight, Strive For Success

One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

- Barack Obama

topic: Light, Brilliant, Fierce, Phenomenal Woman

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Black, Sometimes, Breasts, Phenomenal Woman, Never Lose Hope

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

- Maya Angelou

source: Maya Angelou (2010). “Letter To My Daughter”, p.7, Hachette UK

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Self Determination, Just Being You

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

- Maya Angelou

source: Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring, Empowering Women, Belive

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Empowering Women, I Am Strong

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Freedom, Years, Inspire, Phenomenal Woman, Soul Searching

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage, Makes You Stronger, Never Surrender

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Moving On, Powerful, Novel Writing, Courage To Change

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Heart, Brain, Forgiving, Phenomenal Woman

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Moving, Giving, Done, Best Of Me, Phenomenal Woman

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Music, Loneliness, Space, Notes Music, Spiritual Music

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Education, Learning, School, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 26, 2013

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Appreciate What You Have, Phenomenal Woman