Mother Teresa
Albanian-born Catholic nun who served the poor of Calcutta, Nobel Peace Prize 1979, 1910-1997
66 quotes.
Quotes by Mother Teresa
- Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.
- Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.
- Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
- Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
- Small things done with great love will change the world.
- Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house.
- Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
- Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
- The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
- The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.
- The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
- 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.
- 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.
- There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
- We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful.
- We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
- We fear the future because we are wasting today.
- We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.
- We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
- What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.
- What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.
- Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
- Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you