Mary Teresa (1910–1997) better known as Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun who, in 1950, founded the Missionaries of Charity.
Here is a Collection of Mother Teresa Most Inspiring Quotes. Mother Teresa Quotes That Inspire Love, Kindness and Humanity. Short Mother Teresa Quotes. Mother Teresa Quotes on Life, Hope and Faith. Quotes and Sayings on Life Happiness, Healing & Service by Mother Teresa.
Mother Teresa Famous Quotes and Sayings
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.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Peace begins with a smile..
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
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?
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.
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.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
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.
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
Live simply so others may simply live.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
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.
Work without love is slavery.
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
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.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
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.
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.
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
Love to be real, it must cost – it must hurt – it must empty us of self.
Give, but give until it hurts.
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.
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.
If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.
People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
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.
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. 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. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.
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.
Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
When you don't have anything, then you have everything.
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
If a Mother can kill a child growing in her womb, then what is to stop us killing each other?
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.
Life is a game, play it.
Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
Never be so busy as not to think of others.
I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. 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.
Intense love does not measure it just gives.
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.
The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
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.
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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.
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.
Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.
I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
If I look at the mass I will never act.
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
When you have nothing left but God, you have more than enough to start over again.
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
Perhaps, if I had never picked up that one starving child in the streets, I would never have picked up the thousands thereafter.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love.
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
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.
God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
The good you do today, people will often forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you win false friends & true enemies. Succeed anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
Small things done with great love will change the world.
The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.
Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.
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.
Also read: