Mother Teresa Quotes

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

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish
that He didn't trust me so much.

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

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

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

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.


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

There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I’ve always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic. We believe our work should be our example to people.

I think I'm more difficult than critical.

There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ:
Jesus is my God,
Jesus is my Spouse,
Jesus is my Life,
Jesus is my only Love,
Jesus is my All in All;
Jesus is my Everything.

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.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the
sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the
devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why
we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those people throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread, and by our understanding love, give them peace and joy.

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

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

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

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.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a
love letter to the world.

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

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

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.

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy – let us pray.

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

When once a chairman of a multinational company came to see me, to offer me a property in Bombay, he first asked: ‘Mother, how do you manage your budget?" I asked him who had sent him here. He replied: ‘I felt an urge inside me.’ I said: other people like you come to see me and say the same. It was clear God sent you, Mr. A, as He sends Mr. X, Mrs. Y, Miss Z, and they provide the material means we need for our work. The grace of God is what moved you. You are my budget. God sees to our needs, as Jesus promised. I accepted the property he gave and named it Asha Dan (Gift of Hope).

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to
love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve
hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved
in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our
love for each other must start.

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

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

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


Mother Teresa - Do It Anyway

People are unreasonable,
illogical, and self-centered,
LOVE THEM ANYWAY

If you do good, people will
accuse you of selfish,
ulterior motives,
DO GOOD ANYWAY

If you are successful, you win
false friends and true enemies,
SUCCEED ANYWAY

The good you do will
be forgotten tomorrow,
DO GOOD ANYWAY

Honesty and frankness
make you vulnerable,
BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY

What you spent years building
may be destroyed overnight,
BUILD ANYWAY

People really need help but
may attack you if you help them,
HELP PEOPLE ANYWAY

Give the world the best you
have and you'll get kicked
in the teeth,
GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU'VE GOT ANYWAY.

From a sign on the wall
of Shishu Bhavan,
the Children's home in Calcutta