Here is the best collection of Mother Teresa quotes that will inspire you. Mother Teresa, also known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, was a Roman Catholic missionary who lived in India for most of her life.
She devoted her life to helping the poor and sick and to bettering the conditions of the poorest people in India. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts and was made a Saint by the Vatican.
This collection of Mother Teresa quotes and sayings showcases the wisdom and faith of this woman who dedicated her life to helping others.
Mother Teresa Quotes
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. – Mother Teresa
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. – Mother Teresa
God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. – Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. – Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. – Mother Teresa
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If you want to change the world, go home and love your family. – Mother Teresa
If we worry too much about ourselves, we won’t have time for others. – Mother Teresa
People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. – Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. – Mother Teresa
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Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa
It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. – Mother Teresa
Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons. – Mother Teresa
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. – Mother Teresa
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. – Mother Teresa
The Most Famous Mother Teresa Quotes
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
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.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
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.
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
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.
The Best Mother Teresa Quotes
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
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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.
I fear just one thing: Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?
If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inspirational Mother Teresa Quotes And Sayings
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
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.
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.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
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.
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.
Short Mother Teresa Quotes
The first step to becoming is to will it.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Work without love is slavery.
I think I’m more difficult than critical.
Live simply so others may simply live.
A life not lived for others is not a life.
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Peace begins with a smile.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
We fear the future because we are wasting today.
Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
Prayer is not asking life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.
Mother Teresa Quotes On Love And Life
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.
The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love.
It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.
Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
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.
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.
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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.
There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
