Quotes about Growth
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
— Maya Angelou
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
— Maya Angelou
I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
— Maya Angelou
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
— Maya Angelou
The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.
— Maya Angelou
She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
— Maya Angelou
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
— Maya Angelou
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
— Maya Angelou
Few, if any, survive their teens.
— Maya Angelou
In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be born again, and born with the knowledge of alternatives. Even then?
— Maya Angelou
You do your best until you know better, then you do better.
— Maya Angelou
It was a large heart with lots of hearts growing smaller inside, and piercing from the outside rim to the smallest heart was an arrow.
— Maya Angelou