If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
– Mother Teresa
Peace begins with a smile.
– Mother Teresa
We fear the future because we are wasting today.
– Mother Teresa
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
– Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
– 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
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
– Mother Teresa
It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
– Mother Teresa
A life not lived for others is not a life.
– Mother Teresa
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
– Mother Teresa
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
– Mother Teresa
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
– Mother Teresa
God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
– Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
– Mother Teresa
Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
– Mother Teresa
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
– 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
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
– Mother Teresa
Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.
– Mother Teresa
True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love.
– Mother Teresa
I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
– Mother Teresa
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
– Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
– Mother Teresa
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier.
– Mother Teresa
One of the realities we’re all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion and from compassion to wonderment.
– Mother Teresa
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.
– Mother Teresa
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.
– Mother Teresa
If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.
– Mother Teresa
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
– Mother Teresa
Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.
– Mother Teresa
Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
– 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
Life is a challenge; we must take it.
– Mother Teresa
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
– Mother Teresa
People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
– Mother Teresa
The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
– Mother Teresa
One filled with the joy preaches without preaching.
– Mother Teresa
I do not pray for success; I ask for faithfulness.
– Mother Teresa
I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.
– Mother Teresa
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
– Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
– Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.
– Mother Teresa
Work without love is slavery.
– Mother Teresa
The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.
– Mother Teresa
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.
– 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
We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.
– Mother Teresa
I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.
– Mother Teresa
We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
– Mother Teresa