William Makepeace Thackeray Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by William Makepeace Thackeray
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Related topics: Family Relationship Life Human-Nature Psychology
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Mother Sayings
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa 
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
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It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times,
and within reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
- Emily Dickinson
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
God doesn't require us to succeed;
He only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
- Mother Teresa
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
- Francesco Petrarch
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
- Honore de Balzac
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There was never a child so lovely
but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The girl of my dreams is my mother's shadow,
cast upon the distant movie screen of my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
- Mother Teresa
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us always meet each other with a smile,
for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones -
the ones at home.
- Mother Teresa
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Teresa
Words which do not give the
light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
I do not pray for success,
I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
No Sayings
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
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