Inspiring Words of Wisdom: 30 Powerful Quotes from Mother Teresa

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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- 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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- 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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- 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

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

- 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

"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

"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

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- 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

"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

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

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

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

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