Mother Teresa Quotes
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu was born on the 26th of August, 1910 in Skopje, North Macedonia. She was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who devoted her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world.
Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and became a symbol of charitable and selfless work.
Considered one of the 20th Century’s greatest humanitarians, she was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016. Mother Teresa died on the 5th of September, 1997 in Kolkata, India.
In this article, you will find a collection of famous Mother Teresa quotes and sayings about love, generosity, kindness and life.
80 Mother Teresa Quotes About Life, Charity & Love
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Live simply so others may simply live.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“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 Quote
“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?” – Mother Teresa Quote
“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 Quote
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“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 Quote
“There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“We fear the future because we are wasting today.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them…For as long as you are green, you can grow.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Please choose the way of peace. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, or never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“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 Quote
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“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 Quote
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“I think I’m more difficult than critical.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“Good works are links that form a chain of love.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“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 Quote
“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 Quote
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don’t 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 Quote
“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 Quote
“If we 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 Quote
“It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“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 Quote
“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 Quote
“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 Quote
“I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don’t understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don’t understand.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“I fear just one thing: Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus”– Mother Teresa Quote
“There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it’s the logic of love.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“A life not lived for others is not a life.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Work without love is slavery.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“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 Quote
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.” – Mother Teresa Quote
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”– Mother Teresa Quote
“God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.”– Mother Teresa Quote