Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mother Teresa

Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses

Mother Teresa

One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.

Mother Teresa

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.

Mother Teresa

The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time.

Mother Teresa

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give.

Mother Teresa

If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.

Mother Teresa

Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.

Mother Teresa

We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.

Mother Teresa

Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.

Mother Teresa

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

Mother Teresa

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

Mother Teresa

God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold...

Mother Teresa

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

Mother Teresa

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Monica Denise Brown

You can't take my joy, because you didn't give it to me

Monica Crowley

Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard.

Mohammed Dahlan

If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

Mohammed Dahlan

Be certain that Yasser Arafat’s final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that … the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

Minnie Pearl

Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

Mira Sorvino

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

Mike Krzyzewski

Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise

Pearl S. Buck

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

Pearl S. Buck

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

Peace Pilgrim

In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same. Anything in excess of needs is burdensome to me. You couldn't give me anything I don't need. I am penniless, but have difficulty remaining so. Several of my well meaning, well-to-do friends have offered me large sums of money, which I of course refused.

Peace Pilgrim

just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving ...

Peace Pilgrim

Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me strength to walk, I live because God gives me the supply to live, I speak because God gives me the words to speak. All I did was to surrender my will to God's will. My entire life has prepared me for this undertaking. This is my calling. This is my vocation. This is what I must be doing. I could not be happy doing anything else.

Peace Pilgrim

The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.

Paula Patton

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the unexpected, and not just do the same thing you've always seen.

Paula White

To say you're going to wiggle your nose and that is going to happen, it won't happen. If you look at major companies who are doing wonderful things, wonderful things and they give their portfolio billions of dollars that they make and they give away $10 million or so, when you start putting the percentages there, what we are doing is significant.

Terry Tempest Williams

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.

Terry Tempest Williams

The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinion? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up, trusting our fellow citizens to join us in our determined pursuit-a living democracy?