121+ Mother Teresa Quotes, Can Change Your Perspective Life

Who is Mother Teresa?

Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was a Roman Catholic nun.

She started his ministry in India as a teacher.

But poor poverty across Calcutta left a deep impression on her.

She began establishing the Order of the Brethren, and began to care for the sick and the hungry.

In 1979 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Prize.

On the Feast of the Feast he did not come, but asked for $ 192,000 to be given to the poor.

Mother Teresa wears her whole life totally not for herself but to love others; love those who are forgotten, rejected, and ignored.

She did it because he was emulating Christ, who had given hiself in total to love her.

Here’s a collection of Mother Teresa quotes that are very inspiring:

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Mother Teresa Quotes

mother teresa quotes: Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. – Mother Teresa

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

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. – Mother Teresa

mother teresa quotes: Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life. ― 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

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love. – Mother Teresa

quotations mother teresa: When you don’t have anything, then you have everything. ― Mother Teresa

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

Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa

quotations mother teresa: Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want. – Mother Teresa

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home. ― Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

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

quotation mother teresa: 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

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

quotation mother teresa: 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

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use. – Mother Teresa

We fear the future because we are wasting today. – Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

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

quotes from mother teresa: I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. – 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

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. – Mother Teresa

quotes from mother teresa: 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

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

mother teresa sayings: 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

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

mother teresa sayings: I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. – Mother Teresa

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

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

I think I’m more difficult than critical. – Mother Teresa

mother teresa quotes on life: Live simply so others may simply live. – Mother Teresa

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

quotes of mother teressa: 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

Good works are links that form a chain of love. – Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Service

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.

How do you know, love, and serve God? How do you prove that you love Him? In the family, the father proves his love by all that he does for his children, for his wife. We prove our love for Jesus by what we do, by who we are. (Where there is Love, there is God, p. 277)

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

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. – Mother Teresa

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

quotes mother teresa: Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person – Mother Teresa

Love is a one-way street. It always moves away from self in the direction of the other. Love is the ultimate gift of our selves to others. When we stop giving we stop loving, when we stop loving we stop growing, and unless we grow we will never attain personal fulfillment; we will never open out to receive the life of God. It is through love we encounter God. (Where there is Love, there is God, p. 26)

quotes mother teresa: 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.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

quote from mother teresa: God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. – 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

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

quote from mother teresa: If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. – Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Life

Peace begins with a smile.

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

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

mother teressa quotes: What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

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

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

quotes from mother teresa about life: Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

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

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

famous quotes of mother teresa: I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

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

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

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

I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

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

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

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

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

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

Mother Teresa Quotes on Family

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

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. Bring love into your home, for this is where our love for each other must start.

The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family.

The way you help heal the world is that you start with your own family.

The family that prays together, stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.

Bring prayer back into your family life, and you too will see that unity, the bond of joyful love that will bind you together. Maybe there is poverty and suffering in your families. But sharing together, loving together will help you.

If a mother can kill her own child, how long will it be before we start to kill one another? We should not be surprised when we hear about murders, deaths, wars, and hate in the world today. Don’t ever allow even one child, born or unborn, to be unwanted. Let us go with Our Lady to search out that child and take him or her home.

Whatever you do for your family, your children, your husband, your wife, you do for God. All we do, our prayers, our work, our suffering, is for Jesus.

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

The problem with our world is that we draw the circle of family too small.