Quotes
32 Inspirational Mother Teresa Quotes
Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, is one of the most recognized humanitarian figures in recent memory. From an early age, Mother Teresa dedicated her life to charity and helping those in need all around the world. Even though much of her drive comes from her loyalty to her faith, her story and wisdom continues to inspire millions to this day even after her death in 1997.
Here are some of her most inspirational quotes:
1. “Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa
2. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa
3. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa
4. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa
5. “There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.” – Mother Teresa
6. “We fear the future because we are wasting the today” – Mother Teresa
7. “I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.” – Mother Teresa
8. “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.” – Mother Teresa
9. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” – Mother Teresa
10. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Teresa
11. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa
12. “When you don’t have anything, then you have everything” – Mother Teresa
13. “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”
14. “Live simply so others may simply live.” – Mother Teresa
15. “I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?” – Mother Teresa
16. “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
17. “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
18. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa
19. “Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ” – Mother Teresa
20. “True love is a giving, and giving until it hurts” – Mother Teresa
21. “One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” – Mother Teresa
22. “The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.” – Mother Teresa
23. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa
24. “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for a smile is the beginning of love” – Mother Teresa
25. “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
26. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa
27. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person” – Mother Teresa
28. “Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” – Mother Teresa
29. “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
30. “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa
31. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
32. “Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.” – Mother Teresa