You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.
- Topic: Action, Reputation
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More Quotes from Maya Angelou
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.
The one hand trying to wash itself is a pitiful spectacle, but when one hand washes the other, power is increased, and it becomes a force to be reckoned with.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
