Quotes from Mother Teresa

Spread love wherever you go; let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

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

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

Peace begins with a smile.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

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

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

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

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 ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Quotes from Mother Teresa part 2

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

There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore, it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God.

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

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.

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

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

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

The success of love is in the loving—it is not in the result of loving.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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.

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 just feed one.

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.

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

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