attributed to Maya Aangelou Quotes

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

“If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us.”

“Happiness is that which occurs when you know what sadness is, and that you possess neither it nor the attributes of it. So is sadness, that you know what happiness is, and that you possess neither happiness nor its attributes.”

“When and why do we attribute a person's behavior to brain disease, and when and why do we not do so? Briefly, the answer is that we often attribute bad behavior to disease (to excuse the agent);never attribute good behavior to disease (lest we deprive the agent of credit); and typically attribute good behavior to free will and insist bad behavior called mental illness is a "no fault" act of nature.”

“When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.”

“There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.”

“Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.”

“There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.”

“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.”

“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.”