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 am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• 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

• You are called to exercise the Spirit's gifts amidst the ups and downs of your daily life. Let your faith mature through your studies, work, sports, music and art. Let it be sustained by prayer and nurtured by the sacraments.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to be great difficulty. Why is this so? 1) Lack of desperation (realizing our dependence on God), 2) The wrestlings of the flesh, 3) Lack of faith to believe not only that God hears us but that He will move on our behalf.

  

  David Wallace
  • People
  • Believe
  • Prayer

• I'm sure Kermit will stay young a lot longer than I will.

  

  Jim Henson

• Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

  

  Raul Julia
  • Reality
  • Parent
  • Special

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

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Prayer