Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

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• The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Judge
  • Audience
  • Decisions

• I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Running

• The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Human
  • Function
  • Exploration

• Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Quality
  • Brain

• There is something so fun about scaring yourself.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Something

• Republicans who oppose Obamacare have a responsibility to show that they can do better - not return us to the days when insurance companies alone decided who to cover for what benefits at what price. Otherwise, they should move beyond the repeal fights of the past, accept Obamacare as the law of the land, and work with us to make real improvements.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Real
  • Past

• My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Mother

• When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word.

  

  F. F. Bosworth
  • God
  • Faith
  • Promise

• The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Writing
  • Forget
  • Labour

• Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Enemy
  • Silence
  • Able

• Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I try to be generous with affection. I’m really lucky to be able to be in some of these situations and it feels really nice to be able to take people along with me for the ride. Oh, and I’m a pain in the ass as well.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Pain
  • Affection
  • Ride

• The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Media
  • Manipulate
  • Relevance

• We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Life
  • Gift
  • Field

• Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Responsibility
  • Forgiveness
  • Consequences

• No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • God
  • Alone

• Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

  

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  • Mistakes
  • Psychology
  • Nations

• When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Money
  • Government
  • Leaders

• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Leaders