Mother Teresa
Albanian-born Catholic nun who served the poor of Calcutta, Nobel Peace Prize 1979, 1910-1997
66 quotes.
Quotes by Mother Teresa
- A life not lived for others is not a life.
- Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.
- Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
- Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs.
- Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
- Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love.
- Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Give your hands to serve, and your hearts to love.
- God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
- He will not ask, “How many good things have you done in your life?” but rather, “How much love did you put into what you did?”
- I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
- 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?
- I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes.
- I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
- I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
- I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
- I prefer that you make mistakes in kindness rather than that you work miracles in unkindness.
- I used to pray for answers, but now I’m praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.
- If I look at the mass I will never act.
- If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.
- If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.
- If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.
- If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
- If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
- Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
- Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
- Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
- Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
- Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.
- Listening is the beginning of prayer.
- Live simply so others may simply live.
- Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.