quotes by Mother Teresa

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them. "
— 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.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

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

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

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"Peace begins with a smile,.."
— 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

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. "
— 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

"Live simply so others may simply live."
— Mother Teresa

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

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

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies"
— Mother Teresa

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

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

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

"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."
— Mother Teresa

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

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

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

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

"do not wait for leaders;do it alone, person to person."
— Mother Teresa

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

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

"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise."
— Mother Teresa

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

"(When asked how to end world hunger, she replied:) 'Go home and feed your family.'"
— Mother Teresa

"If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve."
— Mother Teresa

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

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier!"
— Mother Teresa

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

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

"Prayer in action is love, love in action is service."
— Mother Teresa

"when you don't have anything, then you have everything."
— Mother Teresa

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

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
— Mother Teresa

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

"People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

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

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

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

What you spend years building,
someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness,
they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will
forget tomorrow,
Do good anyway.

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

You see, in the final analysis, it is
between you and God,
It never was between you and them anyway.."
— Mother Teresa

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

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

"Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything."
— Mother Teresa

"Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly."
— Mother Teresa

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

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that we try."
— 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

"I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness."
— Mother Teresa

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