Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

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• Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Without
  • Cake

• Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Live
  • Love
  • Home

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Just
  • Head

• Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Maybe

• Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Free
  • Care

• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Growing
  • Me
  • Organization

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Speak

• I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Why
  • She
  • History

• I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Single
  • Responsibility
  • Try

• My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Passion
  • Politics

• My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Father
  • Health

• I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Family
  • Home
  • America

• One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Deep
  • Sense
  • Outsider

• The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • Insurance
  • Boxes
  • Box

• My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • People
  • Selfish

• The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Country

• Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.'

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • World
  • Giving