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Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

God never sends us more than we can handle.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.

Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there

A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

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75 Most Inspirational Mother Teresa Quotes

Mother Teresa — a figure synonymous with compassion and dedication to the poorest of the poor — left an indelible mark on the world through her humanitarian work. 

Her life — dedicated to serving the sick, the destitute, and the dying in the slums of Kolkata, India — earned her the Nobel Peace Prize and the admiration of people worldwide. 

Known for her quotes on love, service, and charity, Mother Teresa’s words continue to inspire acts of kindness and selflessness.

However, her legacy is not without controversy. Critics have pointed out aspects of her work and her organization’s operations that spark debate on the nature of sainthood, the ethics of suffering, and the complexities of charity. These discussions add a layer of nuance to her figure, reminding us that heroes are also human — with actions and decisions that can be examined from multiple perspectives.

Despite these critiques, Mother Teresa’s quotes capture universal truths about compassion, humility, and the importance of doing small things with great love. 

In this article, we’ve selected quotes that reflect the depth of her commitment to helping others — offering insights into a life lived in service to humanity. 

Her words serve as a call to look beyond ourselves and contribute, in whatever way we can, to the welfare of others…

The Best Mother Teresa Quotes

Famous mother teresa quotes.

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” — Mother Teresa

“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

“We fear the future because we are wasting today.” — Mother Teresa

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa

“The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.” — Mother Teresa

“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.” — Mother Teresa

“If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” — Mother Teresa

“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” — Mother Teresa

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” — Mother Teresa

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” — Mother Teresa

“Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.” — Mother Teresa

“Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things.” — Mother Teresa

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.” — Mother Teresa

“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.” — Mother Teresa

“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.” — Mother Teresa

“Life is a game, play it… Life is too precious, do not destroy it.” — Mother Teresa

“There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.” — Mother Teresa

→ Read more quotes about life

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” — Mother Teresa

“If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.” — Mother Teresa

“There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.” — 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. Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your strength lies.” — Mother Teresa

“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.” — Mother Teresa

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” — Mother Teresa

“Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.” — Mother Teresa

“We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.” — Mother Teresa

“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” — Mother Teresa

“Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.” — Mother Teresa

“Love begins by taking care of the closet ones — the ones at home.” — Mother Teresa

On Humanity

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” — Mother Teresa

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” — Mother Teresa

“We d0 not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.” — Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” — Mother Teresa

“The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.” — Mother Teresa

“I am everything. Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.” — Mother Teresa

“Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light a new light in the hearts of people.” — Mother Teresa

“Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you’ve got anyway.” — Mother Teresa

→ Read more quotes about humanity

“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.” — Mother Teresa

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.” — Mother Teresa

“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.” — Mother Teresa

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” — Mother Teresa

“Work without love is slavery.” — Mother Teresa

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” — Mother Teresa

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ” — Mother Teresa

“Not handouts, but rather hands held.” — Mother Teresa

“The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.” — Mother Teresa

“If we pray, we will believe; if we believe, we will love; if we love, we will serve.” — Mother Teresa

→ Read more quotes about making a difference

On Kindness

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” — Mother Teresa

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” — Mother Teresa

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” — Mother Teresa

“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.” — Mother Teresa

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” — Mother Teresa

“Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.” — Mother Teresa

“Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” — Mother Teresa

“Whenever you share love with others, you’ll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.” — Mother Teresa

→ Read more quotes about kindness

Short Quotes

“Peace begins with a smile.” — Mother Teresa

“We cannot give what we have not got.” — Mother Teresa

“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” — Mother Teresa

“Life is a challenge, we must take it.” — Mother Teresa

“I do not pray for success; I ask for faithfulness.” — Mother Teresa

“You are greater than you know.” — Mother Teresa

“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.” — Mother Teresa

“God speaks in the silence of the heart.” — Mother Teresa

“Loneliness is the most terrible form of poverty.” — Mother Teresa

“Never be so busy as not to think of others.” — Mother Teresa

“Live simply so others may simply live.” — Mother Teresa

→ Read more short quotes

More Mother Teresa Quotes

“Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.” — Mother Teresa

“I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we can change things.” — Mother Teresa

“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” — Mother Teresa

“We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.” — 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

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” — Mother Teresa

“Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.” — Mother Teresa

“If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies, succeed anyway.” — Mother Teresa

“Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them… For as long as you are green, you can grow.” — Mother Teresa

“Joy is prayer; joy is strength; joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” — Mother Teresa

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85 Mother Teresa Quotes On Love, Generosity, Kindness

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

Here are 85 of the most inspiring Mother Teresa quotes I could find. What’s the goal? To inspire you and show you the power of generosity, love, and kindness. Enjoy!

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family. Mother Teresa

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. Mother Teresa

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa

God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. Mother Teresa

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. Mother Teresa

If we worry too much about ourselves, we won’t have time for others. Mother Teresa

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons . Mother Teresa

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. Mother Teresa

The first step to becoming is to will it. Mother Teresa

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service. Mother Teresa

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action. Mother Teresa

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. Mother Teresa

Life is a song , sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Mother Teresa

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Quick facts Name at birth: Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu Also known as Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu Place: Skopje, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997 (aged 87) Occupation: Roman Catholic nun and missionary Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 More  Mother Teresa facts  (Wikipedia page)

The Best Mother Teresa Quotes

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

Love to be real, it must cost — it must hurt — it must empty us of self.

Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them…For as long as you are green, you can grow.

I fear just one thing: Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus.

Part 2. Mother Teresa Quotes That Are…

The most famous mother teresa quotes.

Peace begins with a smile.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Live simply so others may simply live.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Please choose the way of peace. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, or never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Work without love is slavery.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Inspirational Mother Teresa Quotes

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, “How many good things have you done in your life?” rather he will ask, “ How much love did you put into what you did?”

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.

I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

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

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

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.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Wise Mother Teresa Quotes

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other’s faults and failures. Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

We fear the future because we are wasting today.

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

These are the few ways we can practice humility : To speak as little as possible of one’s self. To mind one’s own business. Not to want to manage other people’s affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one’s dignity. To choose always the hardest.

When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Related : Mother Teresa, the nun who became a saint (4-minute video by bbc.com)

Part 3. Conclusion

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

After all these beautiful quotes by Mother Teresa, if you still find it hard to be faithful, keep in mind that she, herself, had difficulties too sometimes.

Where is my faith? Even deep down … there is nothing but emptiness and darkness. … If there be God – please forgive me. When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven, there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives and hurt my very soul.

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75 Most Inspirational Mother Teresa Quotes

M other Teresa - a figure synonymous with compassion and dedication to the poorest of the poor - left an indelible mark on the world through her humanitarian work. 

Her life - dedicated to serving the sick, the destitute, and the dying in the slums of Kolkata, India - earned her the Nobel Peace Prize and the admiration of people worldwide. 

Known for her quotes on love, service, and charity, Mother Teresa's words continue to inspire acts of kindness and selflessness.

However, her legacy is not without controversy. Critics have pointed out aspects of her work and her organization's operations that spark debate on the nature of sainthood, the ethics of suffering, and the complexities of charity. These discussions add a layer of nuance to her figure, reminding us that heroes are also human - with actions and decisions that can be examined from multiple perspectives.

Despite these critiques, Mother Teresa's quotes capture universal truths about compassion, humility, and the importance of doing small things with great love. 

In this article, we've selected quotes that reflect the depth of her commitment to helping others - offering insights into a life lived in service to humanity. 

Her words serve as a call to look beyond ourselves and contribute, in whatever way we can, to the welfare of others…

The Best Mother Teresa Quotes

Famous mother teresa quotes.

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

"We fear the future because we are wasting today."

"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

"The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others."

"There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter."

"If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway."

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."

"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."

"Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it."

"Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things."

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it."

"Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons."

"Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life."

"Life is a game, play it… Life is too precious, do not destroy it."

"There is no key to happiness. The door is always open."

On Love 

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

"If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive."

"There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those."

"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your strength lies."

"People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway."

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

"Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand."

"We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly."

"If you want to change the world, go home and love your family."

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."

"Love begins by taking care of the closet ones - the ones at home."

On Humanity

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

"We d0 not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion."

- Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."

"The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small."

"I am everything. Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans."

"Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light a new light in the hearts of people."

"Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway."

→ Read more quotes about humanity

"What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway."

"If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one."

"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you."

"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things."

"Work without love is slavery."

"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. "

"Not handouts, but rather hands held."

"The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action."

"If we pray, we will believe; if we believe, we will love; if we love, we will serve."

→ Read more quotes about making a difference

On Kindness

"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa

"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier."

"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love."

"Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them."

→ Read more quotes about kindness

Short Quotes

"Peace begins with a smile."

"We cannot give what we have not got."

"God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try."

"Life is a challenge, we must take it."

"I do not pray for success; I ask for faithfulness."

"You are greater than you know."

"One filled with joy preaches without preaching."

"God speaks in the silence of the heart."

"Loneliness is the most terrible form of poverty."

"Never be so busy as not to think of others."

"Live simply so others may simply live."

→ Read more short quotes

More Mother Teresa Quotes

"Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best."

"I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we can change things."

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."

"We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved."

"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."

"Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less."

"If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies, succeed anyway."

"Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them… For as long as you are green, you can grow."

"Joy is prayer; joy is strength; joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

54 Mother Teresa Quotes That Inspire Love, Faith, and Hope

“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world,” Mother Teresa once wrote. Let her words of love and faith inspire you every day.

One of the great humanitarians of our age, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, as she was called after her canonization in 2016, showed the world how to love and serve the less fortunate around us. Small and diminutive in size and stature, she made up for it in her zeal and dedication to the people she loved and helped—most often those who were seen as outcasts and marginalized by their communities. When the devoted nun of Albanian descent won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, she donated her entire cash prize to the poor in India.

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In her long life, she touched the lives of millions through her presence and acts of charity, as well as the truths she shared from her experience of faith. As someone who embodied the servant nature of Christ, being his hands and feet to others, she left us with enduring wisdom to inspire our faith. In her words and especially in her actions, we see that a life of love—however big or small, quiet or recognized—is significant, meaningful, and powerful.

Reflect on these quotes by Mother Teresa throughout your day-to-day. Share one in a note to a friend to encourage them. Or print and display one in your home or office cubicle to keep her wisdom top of mind. After all, the small things you do in love today can and will change tomorrow.

Mother Teresa Quotes

• “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
• “ Peace begins with a smile.”
• “We fear the future because we are wasting today.”
• “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
• “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
• “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
• “ Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
• “Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
• “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
• “It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
• “A life not lived for others is not a life.”
• “I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”
• “If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”
• “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

“Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.” — Mother Teresa

• “God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
• “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
• “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
• “‎Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
• “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
• “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
• “Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.”
• “True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love.”
• “I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
• “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
• “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
• “Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.”
• “One of the realities we’re all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.”
• “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.”

“Live simply so others may simply live.” — Mother Teresa

• “Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile , when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”
• “If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
• “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
• “Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
• “Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.”
• “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
• “Life is a challenge; we must take it.”
• “Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”
• “People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
• “The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”
• “One filled with the joy preaches without preaching.”
• “I do not pray for success; I ask for faithfulness.”
• “I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.”
• “Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”

"Prayer in action is love, love in action is service." — Mother Teresa

• “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
• “Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”
• “Work without love is slavery.”
• “The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”
• “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.”
• “Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things.”
• “We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”
• “I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.”
• “We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”

Leah Hall is currently a digital producer and writer for Country Living. She is based in Huntsville, Alabama. 

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Mother Teresa was an inspiration to millions of people all over the world because she dedicated her life to helping others.

She was greatly admired for the way in which she lived her life, selflessly sacrificing herself to her mission. In doing so she became an iconic symbol for charitable work around the world.

The love and compassion she showed to people of all faiths won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, all of which she donated to the poor.

While Mother Teresa found her inspiration from Catholic teachings she gained widespread affection and admiration from her adopted home of Calcutta, India by respecting local traditions and faiths and always placing humanity over religious divisions.

In 1950 she set up the charitable organisation the Missionaries Of Charity, and by 2013 that had grown to over 700 missions in 130 countries, providing soup kitchens, centers for family assistance, orphanages, schools, hospitals and homes for people with diseases such as leprosy, AIDS and tuberculosis.

No matter what your belief system, there is much to be learned and gained from someone so selfless and loving, so kind and considerate, and someone so revered for very good reason. Below I’ve put together 77 of the best Mother Teresa quotes on life and love.

77 Mother Teresa Quotes

1. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” – Mother Teresa

2. “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” – Mother Teresa

3. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa

4. “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” – Mother Teresa

5. “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” – Mother Teresa

6. “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.” – Mother Teresa

7. “Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.” – Mother Teresa

8. “One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” – Mother Teresa

9. “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.” – Mother Teresa

10. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa

11. “Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

12. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

13. “Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” – Mother Teresa

14. “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.” – Mother Teresa

15. “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” – Mother Teresa

16. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” – Mother Teresa

17. “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

18. “Live simply so others may simply live.” – Mother Teresa

19. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

20. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa

21. “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa

22. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

23. “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” – Mother Teresa

24. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa

25. “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

26. “The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” – Mother Teresa

27. “We fear the future because we are wasting today.” – Mother Teresa

28. “Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other – it doesn’t matter who it is – and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.” – Mother Teresa

29. “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.” – Mother Teresa

30. “Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.” – Mother Teresa

31. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa

32. “A life not lived for others is not a life.” – Mother Teresa

33. “What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.” – Mother Teresa

34. “There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.” – Mother Teresa

35. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” – Mother Teresa

36. “Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.” – Mother Teresa

37. “We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.” – Mother Teresa

38. “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.” – Mother Teresa

39. “If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.” – Mother Teresa

40. “We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.” – Mother Teresa

41. “The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.” – Mother Teresa

42. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa

43. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Teresa

44. “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” – Mother Teresa

45. “People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.” – Mother Teresa

46. “Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.” – Mother Teresa

47. “When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.” – Mother Teresa

48. “If I look at the mass I will never act.” – Mother Teresa

49. “Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.” – Mother Teresa

50. “The greatest good is what we do for one another.” – Mother Teresa

51. “If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.” – Mother Teresa

52. “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa

53. “There is no key to happiness; the door is always open.” – Mother Teresa

54. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa

55. “Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.” – Mother Teresa

56. “Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs.” – Mother Teresa

57. “Never be so busy as not to think of others.” – Mother Teresa

58. “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

59. “We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.” – Mother Teresa

60. “I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.” – Mother Teresa

61. “If you can’t do great things, do little things with great love. If you can’t do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can’t do them with a little love, do them anyway.” – Mother Teresa

62. “You are greater than you know.” – Mother Teresa

63. “Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.” – Mother Teresa

64. “It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.” – Mother Teresa

65. “Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.” – Mother Teresa

66. “If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.” – Mother Teresa

67. “God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.” – Mother Teresa

68. “I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.” – Mother Teresa

69. “Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you.” – Mother Teresa

70. “Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.” – Mother Teresa

71. “If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.” – Mother Teresa

72. “Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

73. “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.” – Mother Teresa

74. “The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.” – Mother Teresa

75. “At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”” – Mother Teresa

76. “No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it’s beautiful to bring a smile into someone’s life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?” – Mother Teresa

77. “If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.” – Mother Teresa

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50 Inspirational Quotes by Mother Teresa: Find Strength, Hope, and Compassion in Her Words

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50 Inspirational Quotes by Mother Teresa: Words to Live By

The list of Handpicked 50 Inspirational Quotes by Mother Teresa

• “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
• “Peace begins with a smile .”
• “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
• “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
• “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
• “It’s not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts.”
• “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
• “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
• “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”
• “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
• “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
• “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.”
• “We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.”
• “If you judge people , you have no time to love them.”
• “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
• “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
• “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them.”
• “If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
• “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
• “Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
• “It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”
• “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
• “We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
• “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
• “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
• “Live simply so others may simply live.”
• “I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?”
• “Joy is strength.”
• “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.”
• “It’s the action that counts, not just the thought.”
• “The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.”
• “There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
• “The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”
• “Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
• “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
• “We fear the future because we are wasting the today.”
• “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.”
• “The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
• “There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.”
• “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”
• “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
• “If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”
• “A life not lived for others is not a life.”
• “ Pain and suffering have come into your life , but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”
• “The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.”
• “Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
• “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
• “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
• “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”

Conclusion:

Through her simple yet profound quotes, Mother Teresa teaches us that love, compassion, and service to others are the essence of a fulfilling life. Her words remind us that while we may not be able to change the entire world on our own, we can certainly make a difference in our small ways, and this ripple can eventually lead to a wave of change. As we journey through life, may we be inspired by Mother Teresa’s wisdom to live in love, serve others with compassion, and spread happiness wherever we go.

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Top 20 Most Inspiring Mother Teresa Quotes

Mother Teresa was an inspiration to countless millions for her lifelong devotion to the neediest and most vulnerable of the world. The selflessness and sacrifice with which she lived her own life made her an international symbol of charitable work, and the love and compassion she showed the destitute of all faiths won her a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, which she donated entirely to the poor.

Mother Teresa found her inspiration in Catholic teachings, but won widespread affection and admiration in her adopted home of Calcutta, India by respecting local customs and beliefs, and always placing our common humanity above religious divisions. By 2013, the charitable organization she had set up, the Missionaries of Charity, had spread to 700 missions in 130 countries, providing soup kitchens, centers for family assistance, orphanages, schools, hospitals and homes for people with diseases such as leprosy, AIDS and tuberculosis.

In 2016, Mother Teresa was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa.

Here are 20 Mother Teresa quotes that will inspire you to be a better person

While these may not be traditional quotes about love , many famous sayings of Mother Teresa show how important love is, and why a devotion to the poor is a kind and necessary act.

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.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

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.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

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.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

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 neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?

God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

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If you’ve ever wondered what motivated this compassionate woman to perform such selfless acts, these Mother Teresa quotes are for you.

It’s fascinating to think about how Mother Teresa dedicated her entire life to serving and improving the lives of others through her kind words. She touched millions worldwide through her messages and acts of love. Even years after her death, her big heart continues to inspire us to do the same, especially for the less fortunate.

Remember, you don’t need a lot of money to help others because your simple acts of love for those around you can make a difference.

Here are some of her best quotes to guide you toward a more fulfilling and happy life through giving, service, and charity.

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Best Mother Teresa Quotes

1. “People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today will often be forgotten. Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”

2. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

3. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

4. “Peace begins with a smile.”

5. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

6. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

7. “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”

8. “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”

9. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” 

Inspirational Mother Teresa Quotes

10. “When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.”

11. “What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”

12. “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.”

13. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

14. “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”

15. “Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.”

16. “Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.”

Profound Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

17. “Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.”

18. “Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”

19. “If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.”

20. “Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”

21. “Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.”

22. “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

23. “Love can not remain by itself—it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.”

24. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

25. “True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love.”

26. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

27. “Whenever you share love with others, you’ll notice the peace that comes to you and to them.”

28. “Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light a new light in the hearts of people.”

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Meaningful Mother Teresa Quotes That Will Make You Think

29. “We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.”

30. “We fear the future because we are wasting today.”

31. “Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”

32. “Live simply so others may simply live.”

33. “‎Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

34. “I fear just one thing: money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus.”

35. “Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.”

36. “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.”

37. “I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?”

38. “I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.”

Mother Teresa Quotes on Service

39. “The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.”

40. “A life not lived for others is not a life.”

41. “Good works are links that form a chain of love.”

42. “The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.”

43. “It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”

44. “There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in—that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”

Mother Teresa Quotes on Kindness

45. “I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”

46. “Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.”

47. “Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

48. “One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”

Wise Mother Teresa Quotes About Family

49. “The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.”

50. “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones—the ones at home.”

51. “We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.”

52. “The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.”

53. “It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”

54. “Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.”

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Insightful Mother Teresa Quotes That Will Encourage You to Give

55. “Give, but give until it hurts.”

56. “We cannot give what we have not got.”

57. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

58. “The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.”

59. “The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love.”

60. “A way of satisfying our brethrens’ hunger is to share with them whatever we have—to share with them until we ourselves feel what they feel.”

61. “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”

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Mother Teresa Quotes About Charity and Helping Others

62. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

63. “It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”

64. “I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”

65. “If we worry too much about ourselves, we won’t have time for others.”

66. “Do not worry about why problems exist in the world—just respond to people’s needs.”

67. “I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.”

68. “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

69. “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”

70. “I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.”

71. “Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same—with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.”

72. “Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely, and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”

73. “There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.”

74. “I see somebody dying, I pick him up. I find somebody hungry, I give him food. He can love and be loved. I don’t look at his color, I don’t look at his religion. I don’t look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim, or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister.”

Mother Teresa Quotes on the Power of a Smile

75. “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”

76. “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

77. “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”

78. “Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them. For as long as you are green, you can grow.”

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Mother Teresa Quotes That Will Help You Live a Better Life

79. “Some people come into our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”

80. “At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.”

81. “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.”

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Mother Teresa Quotes for a Joyful and Happy Life

82. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”

83. “The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”

84. “Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”

85. “Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”

86. “One filled with the joy preaches without preaching.”

87. “Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.”

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Mother Teresa Quotes That Prove Her Unwavering Faith in God

88. “I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”

89. “You can love all men perfectly if you love the one God in them all.”

90. “God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.”

91. “I believe God loves the world through us—through you and me.”

92. “You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.”

93. “Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”

94. “Jesus said to love one another. He didn’t say ‘love the whole world.’”

95. “I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.”

96. “It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.”

97. “Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”

98. “Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.”

99. “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”

100. “Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God—the rest will be given.”

101. “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

Mother Teresa Quotes to Promote World Peace

102. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

103. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

104. “The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”

105. “Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.”

106. “We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”

107. “Please choose the way of peace. In the short term, there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, or never will justify the suffering, pain, and loss of life your weapons will cause.”

More Mother Teresa Quotes to Ponder On

108. “We are not called to be successful, but faithful.”

109. “The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.”

110. “Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”

Do You Aspire to Live a Life Like Mother Teresa’s?

Mother Teresa was a nun who rose to prominence as a symbol of compassion and service to the poor. She founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, whose primary mission was to love and care for those who had no one else to turn to.

Indeed, her presence in this world was a gift. She was an inspiration who dedicated her life to helping those in need. With her kind words, we’re able to see that there’s still good left in this world.

Sharing these quotes to make another’s day brighter is one step toward living a life like Mother Teresa’s. Let these quotes guide you and move you to spread love, peace, and compassion everywhere you go.

Which of these Mother Teresa quotes is your favorite? Do you have any more quotes from her you’d like to share? Please, help us inspire others by leaving a comment below.

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162 Mother Teresa Quotes to Inspire Love, Kindness and Compassion

We all complain that today’s world stink with self-absorption and selfishness, how about being the change you want to see? We are all healing from one trauma; the best we could do to ourselves is to be kind to each other. We have the best Mother Teresa quotes that will not only inspire this lifestyle but will also shape you into being a better version of yourself.

Before her death, Mother Teresa was a popular missionary and humanitarian. Her lifestyle was an inspiration to many. She dedicated her life to helping and serving those in need. She was compassionate, kind, and selfless.

We celebrate her today because of the generous works she has done and the lives she touched. Aside from that, she also inspired many to live a more selfless life.

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• “We are all pencils in the hand of God.” 

• “The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”

• “Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.” 

• “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” 

• “Love demands sacrifice. But if we love until it hurts, God will give us His peace and joy.  Suffering in itself is nothing; but suffering shared with Christ’s Passion is a wonderful gift.”

• “I embrace suffering even before it actually comes, and like this Jesus and I live in love.”  

• “And whatever you did to the least of my brethren, you did it to me.” 

• “The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.” 

• “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” 

• “Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs.”

• “We cannot give what we have not got.” 

• “Prayer is necessary to reach that goal. Because it is the breath of life to our soul, holiness is impossible without it.” 

• “You are greater than you know.”

•  “There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”

•  “I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.” 

• “They may see the good you do as self-serving. Continue to do good. They may see your generosity as grandstanding. Continue to be generous. They may see your warm and caring nature as a weakness. Continue to be warm and caring. For, you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It never was between you and them, anyway.” 

• “I held the Host with two fingers and thought: How small Jesus made Himself, in order to show us that He doesn’t expect great things of us, but rather little things with great love.” 

• “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.” 

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Best Mother Teresa quotes on love

•  “Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies.” 

• “Do extraordinary things with love.” 

• “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” 

• “God speaks in the silence of the heart.”

• “Mothers are at the heart of the family. Children need their mothers. If the mother is there, the children will be there too. For the family to be whole, the children and the mother also need the father to be present in the home.” 

• “Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you forget that you have been created for greater things.” 

• “Love begins at home, and every Co-worker, should try to make sure that deep family love abides in his or her home. Only when love abides at home can we share it with our next-door neighbor. Then it will show forth and you will be able to say to them, “Yes, love is here.” And then you will be able to share it with everyone around you.” 

• “True love is giving and giving until it hurts.” 

• “The poor give us much more than we give them. They’re such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don’t have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them.” 

• “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.” 

• “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that he didn’t trust me so much.” 

• “We must become holy not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live His life fully in us.” 

• “God will send” was the reply. Piles of hampers, we were not short. Mother’s faith and trust in God was something living, had become part of herself, one could sense it; yes, one could see Mother had a close Friend, powerful and faithful, working with her all the time.” 
• “They were hungry for the word of God. Here too in the whole world there is a hunger for God, among the young especially. And it is there that we must find Jesus and satisfy that hunger.” 
• “In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.” 
• “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” 
• “The first step to becoming is to will it.”
• “I never get mixed up in what governments should or should not do. Instead of spending time [on] those questions, I say, “Let me do [something] now.” 

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Saint Mother Teresa quotes about love

• “In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.”
• “Loneliness is the most terrible form of poverty.”
• “Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.” 
• “God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful.” 
• “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” 
• “Peace begins with a smile.” 
• “St. Augustine wrote at the beginning of his Confessions: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” 
• “Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who, forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.” 
• “Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.” 
• “My second resolution is to become an apostle of Joy—to console the Sacred Heart of Jesus through joy.” 
• “If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, just more love” 
• “I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God.”
• “As for myself—there is but one desire—to love God as He has never been loved—with deep personal love.” 
• “Pray for me, Your Grace, that there is really “only Jesus” in me.
• 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.” 
• “Although she be but little, she is fierce.” 
• “We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”
• “Not handouts, but rather hands held.” 

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Famous Mother Teresa quotes prayer

• “With St. Ignatius47 you may add: My only wish and desire, the one thing I humbly crave to have is the grace to love God, to love Him alone. Beyond that I ask for nothing more.” 
• “The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.” 
• “If now we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten how to see God in one another.” 
•  “The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.” 
• “God alone, God everywhere, God in everybody and in everything, God always.” 
• “You will never truly realize God is all you need until He becomes all you have.” 
• “I know God will not give me anything I cannot handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” 
• “We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.” 
• “I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.” 
• “Life’s a song, sing it.” 
• “Suffering by itself has no meaning…But suffering shared with the suffering of Christ has a tremendous meaning. Suffering is really the most beautiful way of growing in holiness to be like Jesus.” 
• “Love Jesus—live with Jesus that you may live for Jesus.” 
• “One of the realities we’re all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.” 
• “She encouraged others to smile in suffering as she herself did.”
• “Her “smile”—as an expression of her loving disposition toward God—in spite of her feelings.” 
• “One filled with the joy preaches without preaching.” 
• “Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never. 
• “If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.”

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More Mother Teresa quotes love them anyway 

• “To work without love is slavery.” 
• “With the ability to know and to love; He is a Father who loves each of us uniquely, personally, and He ardently desires our happiness” 
• “Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you’ve got anyway.”
• “Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.” 
• “We interfere with God’s plans when we push in someone or something else not suitable for us. Be strict with yourself, and then be very strict with what you are receiving from the outside.” 
• “Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor…Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.” 
• “There are things you can do but I can not and there are things I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful for God.” 
•  “We need to realize that poverty doesn’t only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else.”
• “Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without being tired.” 
• “Ordinary things with extraordinary love.” 
•  “There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.” 
• “His very being is love; He has created us in his likeness with spiritual powers of intellect and free will,” 
• “Do small things with great love.” 
• “If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise, nor discouragement.” 
• “He then said, ‘But in India, where there are so many problems, can you ever be successful at what you do- isn’t it hopeless to try?’ She replied, “Well, Senator, we’re not always called to be successful but we’re always called to be faithful.”  
• “There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.” 

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St Mother Teresa quotes on service

• “Jesus continues to live his passion. He continues to fall, poor and hungry, just like he fell on the way to Calvary. Are we at his side to volunteer to help him? Do we walk next to him with our sacrifice with our piece of bread – real bread – to help him get over his weakness?”
• “The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.” 
• “We are not called to be successful, but faithful.” 
• “People are hungry for the Word of God that will give peace, that will give unity, that will give joy. But you cannot give what you don’t have. That’s why it is necessary to deepen your life of prayer.” 
• “We must never forget that we are bound toward perfection and should aim ceaselessly at it.” 
•  “Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.” 
• “At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.” 
• “I remember my mother. They say she was very holy. One day three of us were [saying] not nice things about the teacher. It was night. [My mother] got up and [turned] off the main switch. She said, “I am a widow. . . . I have no money to spend on electricity for you to talk evil.” And we had to do everything in darkness–go up and down, wash, go to bed.” 
•  “Together we can do great things.” 
• “I go of my free choice, with the blessing of obedience.” 
• “God Is Love” 
• “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.”  
• “It was Mother Teresa’s conviction that all people “deep down in their heart, believe in God. 
• “We have to possess before we can give.” 
• “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever leave you without being happier.” 
• “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” 
• “When we come face to face with God, we are going to be judged on how much we loved.” 
• “Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God’s work with a smile.” 
• “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”

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Mother Teresa quotes on kindness and love

• “The fruit of faith is love, and the fruit of love is service, spread love everywhere u go.” 
• “The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.” 
• “Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.” 
• “The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love.”  
• “People are hungry for God. People are hungry for love. Are you aware of that? Do you know that? Do you see that? Do you have eyes to see? Quite often we look but we don’t see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.” 
• “We have a great deal of worth in the eyes of God. I never tire of saying over and over again that God loves us. It is a wonderful thing that God Himself loves me tenderly. That is why we should have courage, joy, and the conviction that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.” 
• “If we worry too much about ourselves, we won’t have time for others” 
• “How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers” 
• “Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity we must be able to look up and say, “I can do all things in Him who strengthens me.” By yourself you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have are from God.” 
• “He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.” 
• “Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.” 
• “Being unwanted is the biggest disease in the world.” 
• “By our life and deeds of love, we are making the Church fully present in the world today.” 
• “Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.” 
•  “I don’t do great things. I do small things with great love.” 
• “There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.”
• “May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in” 
• “The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.” 
• I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.” 

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More Mother Teresa quotes on service to others

• “Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness” 
• “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” 
• “It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.” 
• If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers.” 
• “Life is a challenge, we must take it.” 
• “I fear just one thing: Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus” 
• “Have courage for whatever comes.” 
• “If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”  
• “Peace and war start within one’s own home. If we really want peace for the world, let us start by loving one another within our families. Sometimes it is hard for us to smile at one another.” 
• “The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.” 
• “Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them. For as long as you are green, you can grow.” 
• “‎Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” 
• “In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.” 
• “What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.” 
• “If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” 
• “I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?” 
• “A life not lived for others is not a life.” 
• “Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”

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Mother Teresa quotes on life happiness  

• “Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say: “love the whole world.”  
• “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing”  
•  “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” 
• “Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses” 
• “If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.” 
• “Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.” 
• “God gives us things to share, God doesn’t give us things to hold.” 
• “If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.”
• “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” 
• “We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.” – 
• “I have more often as my companion “darkness.” And when the night becomes very thick- and it seems to me as if I will end up in hell- then I simply offer myself to Jesus.” 
• “Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.” 
• “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” 
• “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.” 
• “It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”  
• “Intense love does not measure. It just gives.”   

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Having read this list of Mother Teresa quotes, we hope you are all pumped up to follow her path. She had a big heart and never allowed the selfishness of the world to dissuade her from loving and helping others. Throughout her lifetime, she barely lived for herself.

We hope these quotes you have read above will inspire you to help the poor and the broken no matter how small your impact is. Helping people without focusing on what you stand to gain will open doors of opportunities and blessings. We should also love despite our religious, cultural, behavioral, and nationality differences.

Remember the law of ripple effect? When you treat someone with love, kindness, and compassion, the person passes it on and it keeps going. Sooner or later, the world will change.

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40 Mother Teresa Quotes on Life Happiness

Recipient of a number of honors together with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize in 1962, she was an inspiration to thousands and thousands the world over. Listed here are some Mother Teresa quotes on life happiness that reminds us how our small acts have the power to not simply enrich our lives however the lives of others as nicely.

It’s true that you need to deal with everybody with kindness, and these quotes by Mother Teresa will encourage you to see all the nice on the earth around you and problem others to do the identical with Mother Teresa quotes on life happiness. A selfless humanitarian, these Mom Teresa quotes will need to make you be a greater individual after studying them.

Mother Teresa is admired by thousands and thousands due to her charitable work and the lives she touched.

A few of her views had been controversial, however, nobody can deny the ability of her phrases and actions for Mother Teresa quotes on life happiness!

Mother Teresa quotes on life happiness

A life not lived for others is not a life. Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary If you judge people, you have no time to love them. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. 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. We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things – to love and be loved. Life is an adventure, dare it. If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve. Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. I try to give to the poor people to love what the rich could get for the money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. God made the world for the delight of human beings– if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we’ve waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us — you just can’t resist Him. I believe there’s no such thing as luck in life, it’s God’s love, it’s His.

Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you. The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course, it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does NOT determine the value of what we have done. Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self. At the end of life, we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in. Jesus said to love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself. Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others. There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in. Do extraordinary things with love. Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Live simply so others may simply live. Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead. When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.

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60 Mother Teresa Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

In a world filled with challenges and uncertainties, we often turn to the words of wise individuals for guidance and inspiration. Mother Teresa, a beacon of hope and compassion, has left a legacy of profound sayings that continue to touch hearts and ignite the spirit of kindness. Her inspirational quotes encompass themes of love, courage, and the beauty of life. Join us on a journey through her timeless wisdom as we explore some of her most cherished quotes that will change your life.

Who Was Mother Teresa?

Mother Teresa, known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was a renowned humanitarian and Roman Catholic nun who dedicated her life to serving the poor and destitute. Born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, now the capital of North Macedonia, she was originally named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. After joining the Sisters of Loreto at the age of 18, she took the name Sister Mary Teresa.

Mother Teresa’s Purpose of Life

In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation that focused on providing care and assistance to the sick, homeless, and marginalized in society. Her work included establishing hospices, orphanages, and centers for those suffering from leprosy and HIV/AIDS. Over the years, Mother Teresa’s compassionate efforts earned her international recognition, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

Reading a daily quote from Mother Teresa is sure to lift your spirits. The following is a list of her most inspiring quotes. 

Mother Teresa Quotes

• “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
• “I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”
• “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
• “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
• “One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
• “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
• “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”
• “Peace begins with a smile.”
• “Prayer changes us, and we change things.”
• “The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
• “Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
• “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
• “Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”
• “If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
• “It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.”
• “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
• “In this life, we cannot always do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
• “A life not lived for others is not a life.”
• “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
• “Loneliness and the feeling of being unloved is the most terrible poverty.”
• “The success of love is in the loving; it is not in the result of loving.”
• “If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”
• “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
• “The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”
• “Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
• “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
• “It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.”
• “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
• “I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
• “Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”
• “The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for.”
• “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
• “God doesn’t require us to succeed; He only requires that you try.”
• “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.”
• “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
• “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action.”
• “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.”
• “It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.”
• “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
• “Work without love is slavery.”
• “Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.”
• “Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.”
• “We are all pencils in the hand of God writing love letters to the world.”
• “To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
• “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.”
• “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
• “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather He will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?'”
• “Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
• “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”
• “If we pray, we will believe; if we believe, we will love; if we love, we will serve.”
• “Joy is strength.”
• “There is no key to happiness; the door is always open.”
• “Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely, and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
• “We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love.”
• “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
• “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”
• “We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace; we need love and compassion.”
• “We must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that we be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in us, and our compassion is only a sham.”

155 Heartwarming Mother Teresa Quotes [on Love]

Does Mother Teresa and how she dedicated her entire life to serving the poor inspire you? If you’re curious to learn more about the famous missionary and humanitarian, you will like the following collection of Mother Teresa quotes on kindness, love, and helping others. Enjoy reading! And for even more quotes packed with love, have a look at this list of quotes about helping others .

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, who was commonly known as Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian missionary and nun. She founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, which was dedicated to serving the disabled and the poor and operates in Calcutta, India.

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa is known around the world for her selflessness, compassion, and kindness. She is, perhaps, the most well-known humanitarian and charity worker worldwide. Her example has inspired many to dedicate their own lives to serving those in need and to take a more active role in helping others to live a better life.

As a missionary and nun, Mother Teresa always emphasized the importance of actively doing something for others instead of just trying to solve the existing issues with money. By doing so, she is challenged many to reconsider their opinion.

Enjoy this collection of inspirational Mother Teresa quotes

Aside from being of service to others, Mary Teresa helped millions around the world to lead a more selfless life filled with kindness, compassion, and love.

155 Heartwarming Mother Teresa Quotes

If you want to learn more about the person who selflessly helped so many without asking for anything in return, the following quote collection is for you. These deeply inspiring Mother Teresa quotes about being of service to others will help you to better understand the motivation behind her charitable work.

When you read through the following list of quotes, you will notice how powerful the ideas behind her words were and how her actions mirrored what she said.

Here’s our collection of inspirational Mother Teresa quotes

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” Mother Teresa

“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.” Mother Teresa

“A life not lived for others is not a life.” Mother Teresa

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that he didn’t trust me so much.” Mother Teresa

“Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.” Mother Teresa

“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.” Mother Teresa

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” Mother Teresa

“Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like the sun in a community.” Mother Teresa

“If we worry too much about ourselves, we won’t have time for others” Mother Teresa

“How can there be too many children – That is like saying there are too many flowers.” Mother Teresa

“Just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.” Mother Teresa

“Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.” Mother Teresa

“Give that child to me. I want it. I will care for it. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.” Mother Teresa

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

“We cannot solve all the problems in the world, but let us never bring in the worst problem of all, and that is to destroy love.” Mother Teresa

“I must be willing to give whatever it takes not to harm other people and, in fact, to do good to them. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.” Mother Teresa

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” Mother Teresa

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” Mother Teresa

“How does peace come – Through works of love. Where does it begin – At home. How does it begin – By praying together. For a family that prays together stays together. And if you stay together, you will love one another as God loves each one of you. For Prayer gives a clean heart and a clean heart can see God. And if you see God in each other, if we have the joy of seeing God in each other, we will love one another. That’s why no color, no religion, no nationality should come between us. For we are all the same children of the same loving hand of God, created for greater things: to love and to be loved. Only we must experience that joy of loving.” Mother Teresa

“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully. Do not let a chance pass you by. It is so easy to be proud, harsh, moody and selfish, but we have been created for greater things. Why stoop down to things that will spoil the beauty of our hearts?” Mother Teresa

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“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” Mother Teresa

“Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.” Mother Teresa

“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” Mother Teresa

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” Mother Teresa

“Why must we give ourselves fully to God – Because God has given Himself to us. If God who owes nothing to us is ready to impart to us no less than Himself, shall we answer with just a fraction of ourselves – To give ourselves fully to God is a means of receiving God Himself. I for God and God for me. I live for God and give up my own self, and in this way induce God to live for me. Therefore to possess God we must allow Him to possess our soul.” Mother Teresa

“I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.” Mother Teresa

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.” Mother Teresa

“Humility is truth, therefore in all sincerity, we must be able to look up and say, ‘I can do all things in Him who strengthens me.’ By yourself, you can do nothing, have nothing but sin, weakness, and misery. All the gifts of nature and grace you have them from God.” 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. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” Mother Teresa

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother Teresa

“People are hungry for God. People are hungry for love. Are you aware of that – Do you know that – Do you see that – Do you have eyes to see – Quite often we look but we don’t see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.” 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 person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.” Mother Teresa

“In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.” Mother Teresa

“Works of love begin at home and works of love are works of peace.” Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa quotes on love

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.” Mother Teresa

“Peace begins with a smile.” Mother Teresa

“The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.” Mother Teresa

“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” Mother Teresa

“The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.” Mother Teresa

“You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world, there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.” Mother Theresa

“If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.” Mother Teresa

“I believe that love begins at home, and if we can create a home for the poor – I think that more and more love will spread. And we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace, be good news to the poor. The poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world.” Mother Teresa

“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.” Mother Teresa

“When we come face to face with God, we are going to be judged on how much we loved.” Mother Teresa

“A little boy came to me and said ‘I have nothing, I have no money, I have nothing. But I have this piece of chocolate. And you give that, take that with you and you give it to the children in Ethiopia.’ That little child loved with great love, because I think that was the first time that he had a piece of chocolate in his hand. And he gave it. He gave it with joy to be able to share, to remove a little the suffering of someone in far Ethiopia. This is the joy of loving: to give until it hurts.” Mother Teresa

“Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.” Mother Teresa

“Let us thank God that we have had this opportunity to come to know each other, and this knowledge of each other has brought us very close. And we will be able to help not only the children of India and Africa, but will be able to help the children of the whole world.” Mother Teresa

“A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels – loved and wanted.” Mother Teresa

“What we need is to love without getting tired. How does a lamp burn – Through the continuous input of small drops of oil. What are these drops of oil in our lamps – They are the small things of daily life: faithfulness, small words of kindness, a thought for others, our way of being silent, of looking, of speaking, and of acting. Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize Him.” Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa quotes about charity

“I have picked up from the streets hungry people, and by giving them to eat, by giving them a bed to sleep, I have removed the suffering, but for the lonely, the shut-ins, the unwanted, it’s not so easy. And so there you and I must come forward, and share the joy of loving.” Mother Teresa

“However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace.” Mother Teresa

“Why can’t there be love that never gets tired?” Mother Teresa

“In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.” Mother Teresa

“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.” Mother Teresa

“The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.” Mother Teresa

“Some time ago in Calcutta we had great difficulty in getting sugar, and I don’t know how the word got around to the children, and a little boy of four years old, Hindu boy, went home and told his parents: I will not eat sugar for three days, I will give my sugar to Mother Teresa for her children. After three days his father and mother brought him to our home. I had never met them before, and this little one could scarcely pronounce my name, but he knew exactly what he had come to do. He knew that he wanted to share his love.” Mother Teresa

“A way of satisfying our brethren’s hunger is to share with them whatever we have – to share with them until we ourselves feel what they feel.” Mother Teresa

“I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I’m supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I’m praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.” Mother Teresa

“It is very important for us to realize that love, to be true, has to hurt.” Mother Teresa

If you are a saint, thank God; if you are a sinner, don’t remain one.” Mother Teresa

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” Mother Teresa

“Never feel that you are alone, God is always with you and aware of your struggles.” Mother Teresa

“At the end of life, we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by ‘I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.’„ Mother Teresa

“We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.” Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa quotes on kindness and smiling

“I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.” Mother Teresa

“People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.” Mother Teresa

“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.” Mother Teresa

“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.” Mother Teresa

“We interfere with God’s plans when we push in someone or something else not suitable for us. Be strict with yourself, and then be very strict with what you are receiving from the outside.” Mother Teresa

“Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity, and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent.” Mother Teresa

“We must remember that love begins at home and we must also remember that ‘the future of humanity passes through the family.’„ – Mother Teresa

“He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.” Mother Teresa

“If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.” Mother Teresa

“The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.” Mother Teresa

“Am I ever angry or frustrated – I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated – No, never.” Mother Teresa

“Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.” Mother Teresa

“I never get mixed up in what governments should or should not do. Instead of spending time [on]those questions, I say, “Let me do now.” Mother Teresa

“To the good God nothing is little because He is so great and we so small- that is why He stoops down and takes the trouble to make those little things for us- to give us a chance to prove our love for Him.” Mother Teresa

“The poor people are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful things.” Mother Teresa

“Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses” Mother Theresa

“The Lord likes small things best, especially those done with love.” Mother Teresa

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Mother Teresa

“Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.” Mother Teresa

“Work without love is slavery.” Mother Teresa

“Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart.” Mother Teresa

“When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.” Mother Teresa

“Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God’s work with a smile.” Mother Teresa

“When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.” Mother Teresa

“When you have nothing left but God, you have more than enough to start over again.” Mother Teresa

Here are even more Mother Teresa quotes for you

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” Mother Teresa

“He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.” Mother Teresa

“There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone’s house. That says enough.” Mother Teresa

“If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.” Mother Teresa

“If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.” Mother Teresa

“We have a great deal of worth in the eyes of God. I never tire of saying over and over again that God loves us. It is a wonderful thing that God Himself loves me tenderly. That is why we should have courage, joy, and the conviction that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.” Mother Teresa

“Life is a challenge, we must take it.” Mother Teresa

“I found the poverty of the West so much more difficult to remove. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from society–that poverty is so hurtable and so much, and I find that very difficult. Our Sisters are working amongst that kind of people in the West.” Mother Teresa

“One of the realities we’re all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.” Mother Teresa

“Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, they don’t need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.” Mother Teresa

“Persuaded of our nothingness and with the blessing of obedience we attempt all things, doubting nothing, for with God all things are possible.” Mother Teresa

“There’s nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there’s someone fighting with you.” Mother Teresa

“Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needing some affection – That, too, is poverty” Mother Teresa

“Mothers are at the heart of the family. Children need their mothers. If the mother is there, the children will be there too. For the family to be whole, the children and the mother also need the father to be present in the home.” Mother Teresa

“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.” Mother Teresa

“We have been created to love and to be loved, and God has become man to make it possible for us to love as He loved us.” Mother Teresa

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” Mother Theresa

“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.” Mother Teresa

“If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.” Mother Teresa

“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.” Mother Teresa

“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.” Mother Teresa

“Life’s a song, sing it.” Mother Teresa

“Life is beauty, admire it!” Mother Teresa

“If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for.” Mother Teresa

“We will allow the good God to make plans for the future, for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come, and we have only today to make Him known loved, and served.” Mother Teresa

“We need to find God and God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees and flowers and grass—grow in silence. See the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.” Mother Teresa

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.” Mother Teresa

“I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people. And find out about your next-door-neighbor – do you know who they are?” Mother Teresa

“I was surprised in the West to see so many young boys and girls given into drugs, and I tried to find out why–why it is like that, and the answer was: Because there is no one in the family to receive them. Father and mother are so busy they have no time. Young parents are in some institution and the child takes back to the street and gets involved in something.” Mother Teresa

“One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition–and I told the Sisters: You take care of the other three, I take off this one that looked worse. So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face. She took hold of my hand, as she said one word only: ‘Thank you’ – and she died.” Mother Teresa

“If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers.” Mother Teresa

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” Mother Teresa

“Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.” Mother Teresa

“Good works are links that form a chain.” Mother Theresa

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.” Mother Teresa

“Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.” Mother Teresa

“Let us thank God for the opportunity that we all have together today, for this gift of peace that reminds us that we have been created to live that peace.” Mother Teresa

“I believe that we are not real social workers. We may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we are really contemplatives in the heart of the world.” Mother Teresa

“I go of my free choice, with the blessing of obedience.” Mother Theresa

“Maybe in our own family we have somebody who is feeling lonely, who is feeling sick, who is feeling worried, and these are difficult days for everybody. Are we there, are we there to receive them, is the mother there to receive the child?” Mother Teresa

“The other day I received 15 dollars from a man who has been on his back for twenty years, and the only part that he can move is his right hand. And the only companion that he enjoys is smoking. And he said to me: I do not smoke for one week, and I send you this money. It must have been a terrible sacrifice for him, but see how beautiful, how he shared, and with that money I bought bread and I gave to those who are hungry with a joy on both sides, he was giving and the poor were receiving.” Mother Teresa

“We all thirst for the love of others, that they go out of their way to avoid harming us and to do good to us. This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.” Mother Teresa

“When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.” Mother Teresa

“It is a gift of God to us to be able to share our love with others.” Mother Teresa

“The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love.” Mother Teresa

“These are people who maybe have nothing to eat, maybe they have not a home where to live, but they are great people. The poor are very wonderful people.” Mother Teresa

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Mother Teresa

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” Mother Teresa

“I hope that what you give me comes not from your surplus but it is the fruit of a sacrifice made for the love of God. You must give what costs you, go without something you like, then you will truly be brothers to the poor who are deprived of even the things they need.” Mother Teresa

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” Mother Theresa

“I don’t want you to give me from your abundance, I want that you give me until it hurts.” Mother Teresa

“We have 24 hours in this presence, and so you and I. You too try to bring that presence of God in your family, for the family that prays together stays together.” Mother Teresa

“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.” Mother Teresa

“God gives us things to share, God doesn’t give us things to hold…” Mother Teresa

“Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.” Mother Teresa

“What can you do to promote world peace – Go home and love your family.” Mother Teresa

“I have said that if I don’t go to Heaven for anything else I will be going to Heaven for all the publicity because it has purified me and sacrificed me and made me really ready to go to Heaven.” 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

“Last time I was in China they asked me ‘what is a communist to you?’ I said ‘a child of God, my brother my sister.’ And exactly that is what you and I are meant to be: brother, sister.” Mother Teresa

“If we could only remember that God loves me, and I have an opportunity to love others as he loves me, not in big things, but in small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

“If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.” Mother Teresa

“The same loving hand of God has created you, created me, created man of the street, created that leper, that hungry man, that rich man, for that same purpose: to love and to be loved.” Mother Teresa

“Let us make that one point: That no child will be unwanted, and also that we meet each other always with a smile, especially when it is difficult to smile.” Mother Teresa

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” Mother Teresa

“We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.” Mother Teresa

We hope you enjoyed this collection of Mother Teresa quotes.

While reading this list of quotes from the well-known humanitarian, you may have noticed how much Mother Teresa highlighted the importance of taking action. She always said that you should not allow yourself to be discouraged by feelings of helplessness.

Instead, she encouraged us all to take action, no matter how small our individual impact is. And if you think about it, if we all started to do something for each other, the world would quickly change.

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Every Mother Teresa Quote That’ll Fill Your Heart With Love (15 Quotes)

Every mother teresa quote that’ll fill your heart with love (15 quotes).

Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of Missionaries of Charity, an organization dedicated to helping the poor. She received many honors for her contribution to the world. Some of them include The Nobel Peace Prize and Bharat Ratna , India’s highest civilian honor.  

Here are the 15 best Mother Teresa quotes on love, happiness, and giving back.

1. Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

People know the price of everything but the value of nothing. Most people value materialistic things too much and don’t appreciate the people in their lives. While in reality, the love from those people actually helps them believe in themselves and pursue materialistic goals. What a thought-provoking Mother Teresa quote!

2. 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.

Just because we are not doing a billion dollar in revenue in business every year doesn’t mean we don’t matter. Greatness is always a result of team effort. Nobody has ever accomplished great things alone.

3. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The big opportunities we get in life are the result of the small choices we make every day. The small choices to wake up early, sacrifice short-term temptations for long-term gains – small choices become the foundation of the bigger opportunities that unfold.  This is a great Mother Teresa quote as it inspires us to value the little things.

4. Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Life is much shorter than we think it is. So don’t fill your heart with hate , anger, or regret. Just smile and be happy in the here and the now. As Robin Williams said, engineering, business, medicine and the likes are necessary to sustain life. But love, art, poetry, romance  – these are the things we really stay alive for.

5. Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Some people discard religion saying that only the poor need it. Why be so skeptical? Only because of their faith in God do the poor survive. Maybe poor people are a sign that God is alive.

6. I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.

Every struggle that you face is there because you are meant to fight it and become stronger. How, you’d ask? What’s the proof? Well, the proof is that there are many people in the world who’ve faced worse circumstances than you and came out stronger on the other side with valuable lessons for others.

7. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

We often hate our weaknesses, fears, and insecurities. But if we embrace them, understand them, we’ll be better able to rise above them. This is an inspiring  Mother Teresa quote because it teaches us to embrace our flaws.

8. It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Some people do charity because they’ve heard that people who give get more in return. Charity is when you give from the heart and not with an expectation to get something in return.

9. I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Whether you believe it or not, there’s a higher power in this world. In the end, we all are working towards the same purpose – to help and heal others.

10. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

No amount of money can compare to the warmth of a mother’s love and affection for her children. Even the likes of Bill Gates and Richard Branson will feel incomplete without their families. This is a magnificent Mother Teresa quote as it proves money’s not everything.

11. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

Change starts with you. Instead of giving to the poor and the needy, why not start with your own family. Show your family how much you love them – write them letters, take them to dinner dates – one day they won’t be there anymore.

12. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

We can not change the world alone. But we can create a ripple, and when many ripples combine, they can transform the world forever. All big revolutions in history started from such ripples – mob lynchings, discrimination in buses, and so on.

13. I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

When we join forces with others, we are able to go far than we can ever imagine. If you’re all alone, the journey will be lonely and you will get tired. This is an insightful  Mother Teresa quote as it affirms our faith in unity and togetherness.

14. Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Greatness already exists in you. It is your own creativity that can create million dollar businesses or extraordinary ideas that can transform communities and sometimes an entire country. Spend time in introspection to discover who you are, but more importantly, take action to realize your dreams.

15. The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.

Spend some time in silence every day. Silence will give you perspective, insights, wisdom, vision, and it will reveal your true desires.

21 Wise Quotes from Mother Teresa

Perhaps the most famous missionary in modern history, Mother Teresa helped thousands of poor people with dispensaries, clinics, orphanages, shelter, food and counseling. This year will see the late Mother Teresa canonized into sainthood by the Catholic Church, forever beautifying her name in remembrance of the good cause that she spread throughout her life.

1. Mother Teresa Comments on Judgement

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

Many people are quick to judge others without truly knowing anything about them. Some of us can judge on instinct and first impressions, this hinders our ability to practice compassion and can keep us closed minded and wary of strangers. Sometimes it’s best to give people a chance and listen before you judge.

2. Mother Teresa Considers Love and Happiness

“There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.” – Mother Teresa

If you think of the small gestures you have received and the love and passion behind them, it may make you want to better yourself and start to do more for others. Love and happiness are interconnected, and love and happiness can be brought about by the smallest of personal actions and gestures.

3. Mother Teresa Believes in the Unity of Humans as a Whole

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa

It’s easy to get wrapped up in ourselves, thinking that we are the most important person in our world. While indeed, it’s important to look after yourself, the idea that we humans all belong together in unity is incredibly powerful. Think of how beautiful the world would be if everybody worked together in harmony.

4. Mother Teresa Teaches us that Charity Starts in Small Doses

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” – Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa fed thousands of starving people across her lifetime. She made it her life’s mission to eradicate hunger and poverty in areas stricken with loss and grief. But indeed it’s true, not all of us can afford to devote our lives to helping thousands of people, so why not help just one?

5. Mother Teresa Understood Humanities Strong Desire for Love

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” – Mother Teresa

We all develop the desire to love and be loved as our lives progress. Love is one of the most powerful and indescribable feelings known to mankind. This quote is incredibly powerful as it reinforces the notion that all humans strive for love, from somebody who watched people in desperate need for her entire life.

6. Mother Teresa Knew how Important a Smile can be.

“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa

A smile costs nothing, think how pleasant it feels when a stranger smiles in the street, how it can lift up your spirits and improve your need. If we all smiled more, the world would definitely become a more peaceful and loving place.

7. Mother Teresa Appreciated Small Things in Life

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa

Appreciating the small things in life is something that a lot of people forget to do. If we start to really notice the small things in life that we often take for granted, we will appreciate them more and feel more fulfilled throughout our day to day lives.

8. Mother Teresa Teaches us to Spread Love Wherever we go.

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

If you aim to spread happiness wherever you go, you can’t really go wrong in life. Think about the people that you know that seem to radiate good vibes and positivity, now consider the impact that you could have on others if you made more effort to spread positivity.

9. Mother Teresa Always had Kind Words to Say

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa

Kind words can make a huge impact on somebody’s overall happiness and well being. Indeed, it’s very easy to pay a compliment to someone and get on with your day, but stopping to consider the true impact of kind words may make you use them more often as you pursue a happier existence.

10. Mother Teresa Eradicated Hurt by Using Love

“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.” – Mother Teresa

Unconditioned love, like the love that we find from our parents can be a very soothing blanket as we progress through our lives. Imagine loving somebody so much that it hurt, then loving them more until all you could feel was love and no pain.. Very powerful thoughts!

11. Mother Teresa Believed in Intense Love

“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” – Mother Teresa

Boundless, limitless love is hard to measure. Sometimes people can love so intensely that they are constantly giving without wanting to receive anything in return. This type of love can be endlessly fulfilling and is achievable by anyone on Earth.

12. Mother Teresa Taught People how to Help

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work” – Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa never wanted anybody to feel alone or unwanted in their lives. She lived to spread love and courage throughout areas that were stricken with disease and poverty. This quote shows how passionate she was in her charitable duties.

13. Mother Teresa Thought Everybody Should be Somebody

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” – Mother Teresa

Everybody can be somebody loving, special and important to somebody else. Mother Teresa was so passionate about this that she described being nobody to anybody as an actual disease. It’s a powerful quote and one that can inspire us to do more for others.

14. Mother Teresa Discusses Miracles

“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.” – Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa witnessed a lot of miracles as she worked across the world to help poverty stricken areas and poor people. She described miracles and acts of kindness as ‘Jesus in Disguise’, a powerful display of her strong catholic beliefs.

15. Mother Teresa Found Pleasure in Helping Others

“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” – Mother Teresa

The work that Mother Teresa and her missionaries did was well documented and praised throughout the world. One of the most beautiful things about her kindness was the fact that she found great pleasure in working her entire life to help others.

16. Mother Teresa Thought we should all help our Neighbors

“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?” – Mother Teresa

Do you know your neighbor? Think how much of a better place the world would be if we all had concerns and cared about our neighbors. Perhaps if we made more effort to reach out and get to know others, we would better ourselves and the world as a whole.

17. Mother Teresa Believes Everybody is Hungry for Love.

“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.” – Mother Teresa

Everybody want to feel loved by others, it’s a natural feeling that comes with a balanced and happy life. People that are loved by many can often be more loving and happy, making the world a better place as a whole.

18. Mother Teresa Relishes Heaven after Life on Earth

“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” – Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was well known for her devotion to the Catholic Church and her faith in God. Here she explains her belief in the afterlife and heaven will make all of the poverty that she has experienced worthwhile after she passes away.

19. Mother Teresa was Strongly against Abortion

“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.” – Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was a strong campaigner for anti-abortion policies. This was due to her humanitarian work and her strong Catholic beliefs. She felt very strongly against the idea of a mother choosing to end the life of their own child before it is given a chance in the world.

20. Mother Teresa Cherished Feeling Wanted

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.” – Mother Teresa

Loneliness is a terrible feeling, that’s why Mother Teresa spent her entire life helping poor communities to work together. She worked incredibly hard to ensure that nobody was left feeling lonely, hungry, desperate or unwanted.

21. Mother Teresa Hugely Advocated Love

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” – Mother Teresa

Love is indeed a wonderful feeling, one that is free to give and easy to receive. If we all gave a little more love, we would in turn all feel more loved. The world would run on love and would be a happier, healthier planet as a whole.

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“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” ― Mother Teresa

“ Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” — Mother Teresa “A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.” ― 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 you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”   ― Mother Teresa

“No color, no religion, no nationality should come between us, we are all children of God.”  ― Mother Teresa

“If you want to bring happiness to the whole world, go home and love your family.” ― Mother Teresa

“If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” ― Mother Teresa

“In this life, we cannot always do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”   ― Mother Teresa

“If we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”  ― Mother Teresa

“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”   ― Mother Teresa

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”    ― Mother Teresa

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is not yet come. We only have today. Let us begin.”   ― Mother Teresa

“Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”   ― Mother Teresa

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”   ― Mother Teresa

“They just want to ride de pun any, drive all the madam barmy.” ―   Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Life

“A Life Not lived for others is not a Life.”   ― Mother Teresa

“When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.   ― Mother Teresa

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”   ― Mother Teresa

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”   ― Mother Teresa

“People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.”  ― Mother Teresa

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much .”  ― Mother Teresa

“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

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

“Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.”   ― 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

“The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love. ” ― Mother Teresa

“Joy is prayer – Joy is strength – Joy is love – Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”   ― Mother Teresa

“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”   ― 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

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. ” ― Mother Teresa

“If you want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”   ― Mother Teresa

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” ―   Mother Teresa

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”   ― Mother Teresa

“When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her.”   ― Mother Teresa

“It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.”   ― Mother Teresa

“We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, & hopelessness is love.”   ― Mother Teresa

 “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. ” ― Mother Teresa

“Do small things with great love.”   ― Mother Teresa 

“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world . ” ―   Mother Teresa

“if You can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”   ―   Mother Teresa

“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.” ―   Mother Teresa

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”   ― Mother Teresa

“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they can do for you in return, but because of who you are.”   ― Mother Teresa

“It is easy to be proud and harsh and selfish, so easy. But we have been created for.” ―  Mother Teresa

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ― Mother Teresa

“It’s cheaper for the Elites to make saints for the poor to pray to for help rather than end poverty.” ―   Mother Teresa

 “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”  ― Mother Teresa

“If we pray, we will believe, If we believe, we will love, if we love, we will serve.” ― Mother Teresa

“The Hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”   ― Mother Teresa

“If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.” ― Mother Teresa

“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”   ― Mother Teresa 

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”   ― Mother Teresa

“Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile when it is difficult to smile.”   ― Mother Teresa

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.  ― Mother Teresa

“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.”   ― Mother Teresa

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”  ―   Mother Teresa

Best Mother Teresa Quotes

“We fear the future because we are wasting today.”  ― Mother Teresa

Motivational Best Mother Teresa Quotes

“When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.”  ― Mother Teresa

“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”  ― Mother Teresa

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”  ― Mother Teresa

“Some people come into our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”  ― Mother Teresa

“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”  ― Mother Teresa

Inspirational Best Mother Teresa Quotes

“If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”  ― Mother Teresa

“A life not lived for others is not a life.”  ― Mother Teresa

“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.”  ― Mother Teresa

“Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.”  ― Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes On Happiness

“Be happy at the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”  ― Mother Teresa

Best Mother Teresa Quotes On Happiness

“Work without love is slavery.”  ― Mother Teresa

“I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbour. Do you know your next-door neighbour?”  ― Mother Teresa

“‎Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”  ― Mother Teresa

“There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”  ― Mother Teresa

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”  ― Mother Teresa

Inspiring Mother Teresa Quotes On Happiness

“If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.”  ― Mother Teresa

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”  ― Mother Teresa

“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”  ― Mother Teresa

“I go of my free choice, with the blessing of obedience.”  ― Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes About Love

“There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.”  ― Mother Teresa

Heart-Warming Mother Teresa Quotes About Love

“Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.”  ― Mother Teresa

“True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love.”  ― Mother Teresa

“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”  ― Mother Teresa

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.”  ― Mother Teresa

“Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.”  ― Mother Teresa

“One of the realities we’re all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.”  ― Mother Teresa

“We cannot give what we have not got.”  ― Mother Teresa

“If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise nor discouragement.”  ― Mother Teresa

“Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.”  ― Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes On Faith

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”  ― Mother Teresa

Famous Mother Teresa Quotes On Faith

“Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”  ― Mother Teresa

“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”  ― Mother Teresa

“There is the thing you can do but I cannot and there is the thing I can but you cannot; so, let us make something beautiful for God.”  ― Mother Teresa

“If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers.”  ― Mother Teresa

“I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.”  ― Mother Teresa

Encouraging Mother Teresa Quotes On Faith

“One filled with the joy preaches without preaching.”  ― Mother Teresa

“Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you’ve got anyway.”  ― Mother Teresa

“I do not pray for success; I ask for faithfulness.”  ― Mother Teresa

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”  ― Mother Teresa

Famous Quotes By Mother Teresa

“We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.”  ― Mother Teresa

Best Famous Quotes By Mother Teresa

• “The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.”   ― Mother Teresa
• “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”   ― Mother Teresa
• “Loneliness is the most terrible form of poverty.”   ― Mother Teresa
• “Jesus said to love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.”   ― Mother Teresa
• “We fear the future because we are wasting today.”   ― Mother Teresa
• “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”   ― Mother Teresa
• “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”   ― Mother Teresa
• “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”   ― Mother Teresa

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”  ― Mother Teresa

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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” Mother Teresa

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?” Mother Teresa

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other – it doesn’t matter who it is – and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.” Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” Mother Teresa

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.” Mother Teresa

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.” Mother Teresa

51 Motivational Mother Teresa Quotes to Empower You (Kindness & Compassion)

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.” Mother Teresa

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.” Mother Teresa

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.” Mother Teresa

God made the world for the delight of human beings– if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we’ve waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us — you just can’t resist Him. I believe there’s no such thing as luck in life, it’s God’s love, it’s His.” Mother Teresa

The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does NOT determine the value of what we have done.” Mother Teresa

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.” Mother Teresa

Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.” Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.” Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Short Biography

Born on 26 August 1910 in Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman (present-day: Skopje , North Macedonia), Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.

Given honored in the Catholic Church as  Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016, Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity (a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor).

Since she was twelve years old, Teresa knew that she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ one day.

As soon as she turned 18, She left her parental home in Skopje to go to Dublin, Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto . After a few months of training, she took her initial vows as a nun on 24 May 1931 and was sent to India for missions where she lived most of her life.

Further reading:

• The story of Mother Teresa of Calcutta – Holy Art
• 9 Things You Should Know About Mother Teresa – TGC
• 10 Major Achievements of Mother Teresa – Learnodo Newtonic
• Mother Teresa declared saint by Pope Francis at Vatican – BBC

Here are the best Mother Teresa quotes so you can be inspired to show compassion, give, love, share, serve, and forgive others.

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