Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun and missionary who dedicated her life to helping the poor and sick. She founded the Missionaries of Charity, an organization that operates homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, among other services. She was known for her kindness, compassion, and selfless devotion to those in need. Here are some Quotes by Mother Teresa that continue to inspire people around the world.
Mother Teresa’s life and work continue to inspire and guide people around the world. Her words remind us of the importance of kindness, compassion, and selflessness in our lives. Throughout her life, she inspired many with her words of wisdom and guidance.
We learn through her that even the smallest acts of love can make a significant impact on those around us. Let us continue to be inspired by Mother Teresa and strive to make a positive difference in the world, one small act of love at a time.
Mother Teresa’s Quotes on Service
1. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
2. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
3. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
4. “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”
5. “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”
6. “We sometimes think that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.”
7. “There are no great things, only small things done with great love.”
8. “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
9. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
10. “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
11. “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.”
12. “I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
13. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
14. “Peace begins with a smile.”
15. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa’s Quotes on Care
16. “I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
17. “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.”
18. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”
19. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
20. “I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself), ‘What do they feel when they do this?’ I don’t understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don’t understand.”
21. “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.”
22. “Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.”
23. “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.”
24. “A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, 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.”
25. “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?'”
26. “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.”
27. “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
28. “We can never know how much good a simple smile can do.”
29. “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”
30. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
Mother Teresa’s Quotes on Strength
31. “I have the strength to face all conditions by the power that Christ gives me.”
32. “It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”
33. “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.”
34. “I have learned that whatever state I am, to be content. In plenty and in want, on the throne and in prison, everywhere.”
35. “The greatest science in the world, in heaven and on earth, is love.”
36. “Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.”
37. “In this life, we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.”
38. “Love cannot remain by itself — it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.”
39. “Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
40. “We have been created to love and to be loved.”
Mother Teresa’s Quotes on Peace
41. “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.”
42. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
43. “I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbour. Do you know your next-door neighbour?”
44. “If we want to make peace, we must begin with the children.”
45. “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
46. “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.”
47. “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.”
48. “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
49. “Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.”
50. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together, we can do great things.”
51. “The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving.”
52. “The good you do today will often be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
53. “A life not lived for others is not a life.”
Conclusion
Mother Teresa’s words encourage us to reach out to those in need with love, kindness, and compassion and to do what we can to make a positive difference in the world, no matter how small our actions may seem.
Her profound wisdom and deep faith remind us that even the smallest acts of kindness and love can make a significant impact on those around us. Mother Teresa’s Quotes encourage us to reach out to those in need with compassion and to treat everyone we meet with love and respect.
Her quotes remind us of the power of love to heal the wounds of poverty, loneliness, and despair. Mother Teresa’s legacy continues to inspire us to be a force of good in the world. To spread kindness wherever we go and to live a life dedicated to helping others.
Also, do read about our other quotes from Rabindranath Tagore and Subhash Chandra Bose for Courage, Strength and Wisdom.