Mother Teresa quotes

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
- Mother Teresa

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

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

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

Never be so busy as not to think of others.
- Mother Teresa

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
- Mother Teresa

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

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
- 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

Yes, you must live life beautifully and not allow the spirit of the world that makes gods out of power, riches, and pleasure make you to forget that you have been created for greater things.
- Mother Teresa

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

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.
- Mother Teresa

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

Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa

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

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

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.
- Mother Teresa

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.
- Mother Teresa

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.
- Mother Teresa

Life is a game, play it… Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
- Mother Teresa

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
- Mother Teresa

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

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.
- Mother Teresa

If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

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

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

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
- Mother Teresa