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Maya Angelou

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DIANE ABBOTT And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.
STEVE YZERMAN There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
CHRIS FUSSELL We're not perfect, but we want to do the right thing.
CHARLIE BELL Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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PAT TOOMEY Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
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BILLY C LEE It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
JIM DEMINT Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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RUPERT GRAVES Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the righ...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do th...
JAMES MCGREEVEY You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.
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JOHN GREEN I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
TONY BLAIR I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doi...
DANNY DEVITO You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.
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MARK TWAIN I have to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I can't afford to make any mistake.
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DAVID CAMERON I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
LOU HOLTZ Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
T.S. ELIOT Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'
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DAMIAN LEWIS I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing th...
EMILIA FOX You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to ...
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BEN VEREEN The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
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SUSIE BRIGHT Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
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SAM RAYBURN In life, try your best to do the right thing. Have fun while you're alive. Take advantage of eve...
JUSTIN CHON The most important thing is to do the right thing. If you do the right thing in the first place, the...
DAVE TOMSKY We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wro...
ALEX GIBNEY If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
HENRY FORD I think anyone who doesn't say that they'd like people to think that they're doing the r...
DAVID STERN Maybe that would be a good thing to do.

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LOUIS C. K. Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing ever...
SHANNON MILLER The time is always right for the right thing.
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MARY ANN MOBLEY Doing the right thing means you have the right attitude too.
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RUSSELL ACKOFF Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing...
JOHN RUSKIN When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is an...
AMBER FREY When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. Yo...
RAMEZ NAAM It shows what doing the right thing will do for you. There's something to be said for that.
BEFORE VEEDER It shows what doing the right thing will do for you. There's something to be said for that.
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doin...
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UNKNOWN I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.
EMILY BLUNT I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu...
JACK COLEMAN How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?
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BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need pe...
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CHIN-NING CHU Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural he...
MAYA ANGELOU I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; ...
DAISY RIDLEY I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. We...
BOBBY KNIGHT If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
HENRY FORD Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
UNSOURCED, MISATTRIBUTED TO MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain...
MAYA ANGELOU Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fel...
ANDREW GARFIELD Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.
LL COOL J 'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doi...
SPIKE LEE The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy...
BEN BERNANKE When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy th...
SUZE ORMAN To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. CHESTERTON To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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MAYA ANGELOU All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
MAYA ANGELOU All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible t...
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MAYA ANGELOU The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
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MAYA ANGELOU I got my own back.
MAYA ANGELOU If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will a...
MAYA ANGELOU I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.'...
MAYA ANGELOU Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...
MAYA ANGELOU I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
MAYA ANGELOU Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. Y...
MAYA ANGELOU We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, ac...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a...
MAYA ANGELOU I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
MAYA ANGELOU During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You hav...
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MAYA ANGELOU Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry,...
MAYA ANGELOU My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...
MAYA ANGELOU If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!'...
MAYA ANGELOU When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and su...
MAYA ANGELOU Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a ...
MAYA ANGELOU Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
MAYA ANGELOU Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin...
MAYA ANGELOU While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone ...
MAYA ANGELOU The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I d...
MAYA ANGELOU Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can ...
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MAYA ANGELOU My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to ...
MAYA ANGELOU You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else...
MAYA ANGELOU Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
MAYA ANGELOU The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
MAYA ANGELOU Nothing will work unless you do.
MAYA ANGELOU Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
MAYA ANGELOU You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
MAYA ANGELOU I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
MAYA ANGELOU If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth...
MAYA ANGELOU There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacr...
MAYA ANGELOU Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any...
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
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MAYA ANGELOU Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOU We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just ...
MAYA ANGELOU The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
MAYA ANGELOU When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
MAYA ANGELOU Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
MAYA ANGELOU Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
MAYA ANGELOU What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change ...
MAYA ANGELOU We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achie...
MAYA ANGELOU The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
MAYA ANGELOU Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer t...
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MAYA ANGELOU I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
MAYA ANGELOU When Great Trees Fall

When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
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MAYA ANGELOU Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
MAYA ANGELOU I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African sa...
MAYA ANGELOU Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
MAYA ANGELOU Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the br...
MAYA ANGELOU A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
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MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU We need much less than we think we need.
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MAYA ANGELOU You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encoun...
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves the liver of it.
MAYA ANGELOU A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
MAYA ANGELOU I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories
MAYA ANGELOU ...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
MAYA ANGELOU We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, ...
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MAYA ANGELOU Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over whi...
MAYA ANGELOU Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down,...
MAYA ANGELOU I believe that every person is born with talent.
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MAYA ANGELOU Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
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MAYA ANGELOU A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the be...
MAYA ANGELOU The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind o...
MAYA ANGELOU Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
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MAYA ANGELOU Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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MAYA ANGELOU If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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MAYA ANGELOU I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them sibling...
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MAYA ANGELOU When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
MAYA ANGELOU If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts
MAYA ANGELOU A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe
MAYA ANGELOU There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
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MAYA ANGELOU Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that...
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MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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MAYA ANGELOU I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
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MAYA ANGELOU Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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MAYA ANGELOU I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
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MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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