Mother Teresa Quotes

Peace begins with a smile.

Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.

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

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

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

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

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.

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

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.

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.

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives – the pain, the loneliness.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.

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

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

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I will never forget that I am only one person; I am only a tiny instrument doing God’s work.

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.

We can do no great things – only small things with great love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Do not think that love, to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

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.

At the evening of life, we will be judged on love.

The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving.

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

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 the peace of the world.

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

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