Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.

Mother Teresa

• People
• Life
• Love
• For Her

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Accept loss forever.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Forever
  • Loss
  • Accept

• I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Book
  • Ambition
  • Publish

• Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Pain
  • Humble

• I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Guitar
  • Piano
  • Bass

• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Sometimes
  • Luck
  • Try

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Human
  • Human Life

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • World
  • Trying
  • Day

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • You
  • Years
  • Look

• My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Mom
  • Church
  • Said

• My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • May
  • Job

• I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Hair
  • First

• While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Writing

• Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • People
  • History
  • True

• There are people who have money and people who are rich.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • Picture

• The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."

  

  Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford
  • Daughter
  • Library
  • Visit

• It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts. Life isn't worth living, unless lived for other people.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Life
  • Love