Maya Angelou Quotes

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

Maya Angelou

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Respect
  • Trash
  • Talker

• I respect Lady Gaga very much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Respect
  • Very
  • Lady

• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Life
  • Change
  • Respect

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Face

• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  

  Rachel True
  • Black
  • Respect
  • Lucky

• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Respect
  • Language

• We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Real
  • Game

• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

  

  U Thant
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Origin

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Enemy

• I really respect Zakk Wylde's guitar playing and his compulsive work ethic.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Work
  • Respect

• Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

  

  Masaharu Morimoto
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Japanese

• Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.

  

  Cliff Stearns
  • Life
  • Today

• I'm passionate about mobilizing young Latinos to get to the polls, so I'm involved with Voto Latino. Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country.

  

  Ana Ortiz
  • Country

• Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Humility
  • Good Luck
  • Dhamma

• Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Respect