Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

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• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Important
  • Greatest

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Fun
  • Age
  • Today

• Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Experience

• No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Fashion
  • Woman
  • Fat

• When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Time

• Sheryl's heroes are in black and white photos, and so are mine.

  

  John Mayer
  • Black

• Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind.

  

  Jim Inhofe

• Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

  

  David Chalmers
  • Sympathy

• I am in love with stories of underdogs.

  

  Ali Fazal

• In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

  

  Li Peng
  • Political
  • Serious
  • Summer

• I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Food

• I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • Parents

• I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Relationship

• Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

  

  Leslie Charteris
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• I love Vivienne Westwood - she designs for womanly shapes.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • She

• Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that something is ready to send out and I never have been. Part of the problem is that as soon as a poem is finished, it stops being all that interesting to me.

  

  Nick Laird
  • Interesting
  • Poem
  • Versions

• When I was a child, eight or ten years old, I made a solemn promise to God that, when I grew up, I would write him a hymn for the prayer-book. The vow has never been fulfilled. But I have painted a large number of pictures, and there must be more than thirty religious ones. I wonder if they will do instead.

  

  Emil Nolde
  • Up
  • God
  • Book

• Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart.

  

  Gene Edwards
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Ambition

• I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Women
  • Eye
  • Attractive

• As I grow older and meet more and more people, I realise how lucky I am to have had a stable family environment. Both my parents had loving families but unstable upbringings, so they wanted us to have a more stable situation.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • People
  • Family
  • Parents

• Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Prayer