Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

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• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Good
  • Duty
  • Him

• Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

  

  Hannah More
  • Duty
  • Discretion
  • Depart

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Duty

• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Constitution

• Our duty is to be patient.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Duty
  • Patient
  • Be Patient

• The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Duty
  • Independence

• I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worry

• In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Marriage

• The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • Holiness

• If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • God
  • Law
  • Natural

• Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • People
  • Saint
  • Holiness

• Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • God
  • Study
  • Prayer

• In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Constitution
  • Duty
  • Guides

• Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Duty

• Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Duty
  • Does
  • Expects

• Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • May
  • Help

• What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Facts

• I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Practice
  • Seems

• I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Way
  • Door
  • Revolution

• I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Living
  • Remedy
  • Apologize

• Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • World
  • Men
  • Art

• Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Duty
  • Holiness