Quotes by Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quotes by Mother Teresa part 2

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

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

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

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

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

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

The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. – Mother Teresa

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. – Mother Teresa

Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. – Mother Teresa

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. – Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

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 prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. – Mother Teresa

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

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways. – Mother Teresa

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

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

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. – 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

For love to be real, it must cost, it must hurt, it must empty us of self. – Mother Teresa

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

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

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

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

Give, but give until it hurts. – Mother Teresa