Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes

To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • True
  • Myself
  • Model

• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Acting
  • Living
  • Creating

• I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Work
  • Sometimes
  • Work Hard

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Ride
  • Egypt
  • Outsider

• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Trying
  • Actor
  • New York

• I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

  

  Adam Oates
  • School
  • High
  • Hockey

• Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • History
  • Books

• What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Hope
  • Interesting
  • Same

• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Write

• Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • World
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• Man knows much more than he understands.

  

  Alfred Adler

• When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. (23 February 1940)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Life
  • May
  • February

• Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

  

  David Whyte
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Stop

• You can't value others until you value yourself.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Value

• The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • People
  • Family
  • Love

• Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Real
  • School
  • Why

• No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Constitution

• We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Moments

• To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Moments
  • Given
  • Infinite