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

• Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • Done
  • Business
  • Pretty

• I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad jumbled books and papers whose stratigraphy is a challenge. Summers in Bozeman, Montana, I write in a spare space, surrounded by interesting rocks and fossils instead of books, on an old oak table with nothing but my laptop.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Different
  • High
  • Interesting

• On religion I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Night
  • Prayer

• The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Wonder

• I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Singing
  • Better
  • Meet

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

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Prayer