MOTHER THERESA’S QUOTES

• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
• 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.
• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
• Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
• If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
• Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
• Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.
• The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
• I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
• I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbour. Do you know your next-door neighbour?

WINNIE MANDELA’S QUOTES

• To those who oppose us, we say, ‘Strike the woman, and you strike the rock.
• I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.
• They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become!
• There is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn’t any pain I haven’t known.
• It is only when all black groups, join hands and speak with one voice that we shall be a bargaining force which will decide its own destiny.
• If you are to free yourselves you must break the chains of oppression yourselves. Only then can we express our dignity, only when we have liberated ourselves can we co-operate with other groups. Any acceptance of humiliation, indignity or insult is acceptance of inferiority.
• All what we fought for is not what is going on right now. It is a tragedy that he lived and saw what was happening, we cannot pretend like South Africa is not in crisis, our country is in crisis and anyone who cannot see that is just bluffing themselves.
• Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.
• The overwhelming majority of women accept the patriarchy and protect it. Traditionally, the violated wife offloads her aggression onto the daughter-in-law. Men dominate women through the agency of women themselves.
• I’m not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.

HELEN KELLER’S QUOTES

• The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.
• Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
• I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
• Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.
• We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
• I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.
• Never fight, except against difficulties.
• You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
• Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
• Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

FOLORUNSHO ALAKIJA’S QUOTES

• I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
• I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don’t think I have done too badly.

MICHELLE OBAMA’S QUOTES

• You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.
• You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
• We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
• Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?
• Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
• You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.
• One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
• You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.
• Elections aren’t just about who votes but who doesn’t vote.
• Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So, if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.
• I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.
• Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.
• Find people who will make you better.