Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you."

- Mother Teresa

"Spread love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

"Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today, let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

"A veces sentimos que lo que hacemos es tan solo una gota en el mar, pero el mar sería menos si le faltara una gota."

- Mother Teresa

""In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.""

- Mother Teresa

"It is not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."

- 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

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."

- Mother Teresa

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"The biggest disease known to mankind is loneliness."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

""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.""

- Mother Teresa

""If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.""

- Mother Teresa

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."

- Mother Teresa

"None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."

- Mother Teresa

"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing."

- Mother Teresa

"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless."

- Mother Teresa

"A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy."

- Mother Teresa

"If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one."

- Mother Teresa

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”"

- Mother Teresa

"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern."

- Mother Teresa

"Be Kind Anyway"

- Mother Teresa

"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."

- Mother Teresa

"The smile is the beginning of love."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"Some people come in your life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons."

- Mother Teresa

"God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil."

- Mother Teresa

"Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance."

- Mother Teresa

"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do that counts."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to you!"

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"The best way to show my gratitude is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy."

- Mother Teresa

"NOT ALL OF US CAN DO GREAT THINGS. BUT WE CAN DO SMALL THINGS WITH GREAT LOVE."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

"We fear the future because we are wasting today."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"A life not lived for others is not a life."

- Mother Teresa

"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."

- Mother Teresa

"If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway."

- Mother Teresa

"LOVE IS A FRUIT IN SEASON AT ALL TIMES AND WITHIN REACH OF EVERY HAND."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- 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

"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."

- Mother Teresa

"LIVE SIMPLY SO OTHERS MAY SIMPLY LIVE."

- Mother Teresa

"If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one."

- Mother Teresa

"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best."

- 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

"Life is a challenge; we must take it."

- Mother Teresa

"Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism."

- Mother Teresa

"People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centred. Love them anyway."

- Mother Teresa

"The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver."

- Mother Teresa

"One filled with the joy preaches without preaching."

- Mother Teresa

"I do not pray for success; I ask for faithfulness."

- Mother Teresa

"I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering."

- Mother Teresa

"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise."

- Mother Teresa

"PRAYER IN ACTION IS LOVE, LOVE IN ACTION IS SERVICE."

- Mother Teresa

"Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls."

- Mother Teresa

"Work without love is slavery."

- Mother Teresa

"The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family."

- Mother Teresa

"Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things."

- Mother Teresa

"We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion."

- Mother Teresa

"It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters."

- Mother Teresa

"Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand."

- Mother Teresa

"We cannot give what we have not got."

- Mother Teresa

"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you."

- Mother Teresa

"Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

- Mother Teresa

"The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action."

- Mother Teresa

"If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one."

- Mother Teresa

"God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try."

- Mother Teresa

"We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly."

- Mother Teresa

"True love is giving and giving until it hurts."

- Mother Teresa

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it."

- Mother Teresa

"Do ordinary things with extraordinary love."

- Mother Teresa

"The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others."

- Mother Teresa

"God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist."

- Mother Teresa

"There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."

- Mother Teresa

"If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers."

- Mother Teresa

"We have to possess before we can give."

- Mother Teresa

"The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter."

- Mother Teresa

"We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world."

- Mother Teresa

"The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence."

- Mother Teresa

"Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen."

- Mother Teresa

"If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway."

- Mother Teresa

"I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much."

- Mother Teresa

"The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small."

- Mother Teresa

"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."

- 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

"We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into doing."

- Mother Teresa

"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot: together, we can do great things."

- Mother Teresa

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones—the ones at home."

- Mother Teresa

"It's not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing."

- Mother Teresa

"It's not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing that matters."

- Mother Teresa

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."

- Mother Teresa

"Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting."

- Mother Teresa

"It’s easier to take than to give. It’s nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime."

- Mother Teresa

"Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love, or simply give a smile. What does that cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give."

- Mother Teresa

"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

- Mother Teresa

"Give, but give until it hurts."

- Mother Teresa

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things, because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"The family that prays together, stays together."

- Mother Teresa

"Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly."

- Mother Teresa

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into doing it."

- 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

"In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you"

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"Give your hands to serve, and your hearts to love."

- Mother Teresa

"Cleaning is not about how much you do but how much love you put into what you do."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service."

- 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

"I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness."

- Mother Teresa

"I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much."

- Mother Teresa

"God doesn’t require us to succeed, He only requires that you try."

- Mother Teresa

"We are not called to be successful, but faithful."

- Mother Teresa

"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?’"

- Mother Teresa

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples"

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"God has not called me to be successful; God has called me to be faithful."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

- 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

"Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them."

- Mother Teresa

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a 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."

- Mother Teresa

"Together we can do great things."

- Mother Teresa

"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 we could use."

- Mother Teresa

"Together, we can do great things."

- Mother Teresa

"There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together."

- 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. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

""I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.""

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness."

- Mother Teresa

"It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand."

- Mother Teresa

"Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."

- Mother Teresa

"You can do what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together we can do great things."

- Mother Teresa

"Home is the starting place of love, hope, and dreams."

- Mother Teresa

"If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn’t care for them, but because you and I didn’t give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"There is much suffering in the world — physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience."

- 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

"Do small things with great love"

- Mother Teresa

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving."

- Mother Teresa

"Each one has a mission to fulfill, a mission of love."

- Mother Teresa

"When you know how much God is in love with you, then you can only live your life radiating that love."

- Mother Teresa

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put into the doing."

- Mother Teresa

""None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.""

- Mother Teresa

"Where love is, peace naturally follows."

- Mother Teresa