Best Teresa Quotes
64 Teresa quotes by 53 unique authors
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a…
— Jack Canfield
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Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria.
— Joy Behar
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My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa.…
— Tommy Hilfiger
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For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.
— Joe Mantegna
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Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have…
— Simon Sinek
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Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to…
— Jesse Eisenberg
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I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman…
— Anne Lamott
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There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but…
— Max Lucado
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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.
— Steven Pinker
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same…
— Carlos Santana
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I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
— Mike Tyson
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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo,…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual…
— Brian Kolodiejchuk
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I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed…
— Woody Allen
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When you give of yourself something new comes in to being... the world expands, a bit of goodness is brought forth and a small miracle…
— Kent Nerburn
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God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I?…
— Meg Cabot
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Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he…
— Melina Marchetta
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Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything…
— John Eldredge
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Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.
— Christopher Hitchens
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It was her. It was Teresa.
— James Dashner
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I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer
— James Patterson
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When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your…
— Mother Teresa
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