189 Inspirational Quotes from Mother Teresa to Uplift Your Soul

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

- Mother Theresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those."

- Mother Teresa

"I don't do great things. I do small things with great love."

- Mother Teresa

"Small things done with great love will change the world."

- 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

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do…but how much love we put in that action."

- Mother Teresa

"Faith in action is love. And love in action is service."

- 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

"Do ordinary things with extraordinary love."

- 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

"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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Theresa

"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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Do extraordinary things with love."

- Mother Teresa

"If you want to bring happiness to the whole world, go home and love your family."

- Mother Teresa

"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- 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

"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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- 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

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

- 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

"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

"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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Peace begins with a smile.."

- 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

"At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people."

- Mother Teresa

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

- 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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- 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

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

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"Love begins at home, and love to be true has to hurt."

- Mother Teresa

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- 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

"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

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

- Mother Teresa

"These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind one's own business.Not to want to manage other people's affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To pass over the mistakes of others.To accept insults and injuries.To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.To be kind and gentle even under provocation.Never to stand on one's dignity.To choose always the hardest."

- Mother Teresa

"Live simply so others may simply live."

- Mother Teresa

"The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is Peace"

- Mother Teresa

"Good works are links that form a chain of love."

- Mother Teresa

"What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway."

- Mother Teresa

"The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family."

- Mother Teresa

"If now we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten how to see God in one another."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Let us take whatever God gives and give whatever he takes with a smile. That is holiness."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

- Saint Teresa of Avila

"The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway."

- Mother Teresa

"Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'nothing' for you."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"In order to keep the lamp burning, you have to keep putting the oil in it."

- Mother Teresa

"Together we can do great things."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life."

- Mother Teresa

"Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary."

- 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

"Loneliness is the most terrible form of poverty."

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Mother Teresa

"If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise nor discouragement."

- Mother Teresa

"There is things you can do but I cannot and there is things I can but you cannot; so, let us make something beautiful for God."

- 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

"Peace and war start within one's own home. If we really want peace for the world, let us start by loving one another within our families. Sometimes, it is hard for us to smile at one another."

- Mother Teresa

"He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness."

- Mother Teresa

"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- 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 I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will."

- Mother Teresa

"Not handouts, but rather hands held."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway."

- Mother Teresa

"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"LIVE SIMPLY SO OTHERS MAY SIMPLY LIVE."

- 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

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

- 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

"If you do your work with joy, you can bring many souls to God. Joy is prayer, a sign of our generosity, evident in our eyes, our faces, our actions."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway."

- 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

"Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world."

- Mother Teresa

"Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them."

- 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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Whatever you do for your family, your children, your husband, your wife, you do for God. All we do, our prayers, our work, our suffering, is for Jesus."

- Mother Teresa

"The family that prays together, stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- 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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Theresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"We are all pencils in the hand of God."

- Mother Teresa

"If you 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

"You are greater than you know."

- Mother Teresa

"Life is a game, play it…Life is too precious; do not destroy it."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."

- Mother Teresa

"Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience."

- Mother Teresa

"We cannot give what we have not got."

- Mother Teresa

"I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?"

- Mother Teresa

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."

- Mother Teresa

"God speaks in the silence of heart."

- Mother Teresa

"‎Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Mother Teresa

"One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment."

- 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

"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

"We will be the happiest people in the world if we belong to God, if we place ourselves at His disposal, if we let Him use us as He pleases."

- Mother Teresa

"Give your heart to God, deliberately, knowingly, willingly. It belongs to Him."

- Mother Teresa

"If you were to die today, what would others say about you? What was in you that was beautiful, that was Christlike, that helped others to pray better? Face yourself, with Jesus at your side, and do not be satisfied with just any answer."

- Mother Teresa

"Every human being has a longing for God. Christians go one step further—not only do we long for God but we have the treasure of His presence always with us."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"When you don't have anything, then you have everything."

- Mother Teresa

"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?"

- Mother Teresa

"How can you say there are too many children? That's like saying there are too many flowers."

- Mother Teresa

"Although she be but little, she is fierce."

- Mother Teresa

"We have to possess before we can give."

- Mother Teresa

"Smiling novices. I can hear the music of your laughter of joy. Learn, my children, to be holy, for true holiness consists of doing God's work with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"Life's a song, sing it."

- Mother Teresa

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

- 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

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

"God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us -- you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His."

- 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

"I go of my free choice, with the blessing of obedience."

- Mother Teresa

"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."

- Mother Teresa

"Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want."

- Mother Teresa

"If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?"

- Mother Teresa

"Love begins at home."

"We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something."

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