Maya Angelou Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Maturity Quotes

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

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Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

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Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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All I have learned, I learned from books.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions

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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

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I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

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Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

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Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

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Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

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God does not play dice.

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