Maya Angelou Quotes about Responsibility

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

Responsibility, Clouds, Rainbow

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

Maya Angelou

Motivational, Responsibility, Light

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 20, 2014

When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

Maya Angelou

Responsibility, Clouds, Rainbow

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

Maya Angelou

Lying, Responsibility, Choices

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.73, Random House

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

Maya Angelou

Children, Responsibility, Tomorrow

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 29, 2010

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

Maya Angelou

Positive, Responsibility, Space

I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

Maya Angelou

Appreciation, Mean, Responsibility

Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

Maya Angelou

Inspiring, Responsibility, Accepting

Twitter post from Mar 20, 2014

Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

Maya Angelou

Responsibility, Trying, Debt

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

Maya Angelou

Humility, Responsibility, Important

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 05, 2013

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

Maya Angelou

Life, God, Responsibility

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library

I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?".

Maya Angelou

Responsibility, People, Helping

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

Among other things, I'm thinking "I'm a child of God." That's amazing. And "I'm not only a child of God, but God loves me." The hardest part for me is to realize that while God loves me, and I am a child of God, I have to see the bigot and the brute and the rapist, and whether he or she knows it or not, I have to know that that person is a child of God. That is part of the responsibility - and it's hard.

Maya Angelou

Children, Responsibility, Thinking

Source: www.oprah.com

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Maya Angelou

Religious, Humility, Responsibility

Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"

Maya Angelou

Responsibility, People, Helping

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Maya Angelou

Inspiring, Dream, Responsibility

"Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

Maya Angelou

Giving Up, Responsibility, Thinking

Dr. Maya Angelou (2009). “The Heart of a Woman”, p.55, Random House

Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.

Maya Angelou

Responsibility, Space, Giving

Beautifully Said Magazine Interview, beautifullysmagazine.com.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

Maya Angelou

Responsibility, Men, Thinking

"America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

Maya Angelou

Religious, Responsibility, Modesty

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

Maya Angelou Quotes about Responsibility

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