Mother Teresa

Nun, Humanitarian Albanian-Indian 1910 – 1997

Founded Missionaries of Charity; served the poorest in Calcutta.

370 quotes

"Faithfulness to the poor is our faithfulness to Christ."
Faith
"The work we do is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
Wisdom
"Beauty is seeing the face of God in all people."
Beauty
"We should not be ashamed of the wounds of Christ."
Faith
"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
Faith
"We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love."
Love
"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."
Kindness
"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
Work
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."
Change
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
Happiness
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Love
"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty."
Kindness
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
Time
"Do small things with great love and change will come."
Motivation
"Be a living example of your beliefs."
Faith
"Peace begins with a smile."
Peace
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
Kindness
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the greatest poverty."
Solitude
"Every person is precious and unique in God's eyes."
Faith
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
Leadership
"Life is a gift to be cherished and celebrated."
Life
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
Love
"Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself and others."
"There is no greater love than to serve others."
Love
"The poor give us much more than we give them."
Wisdom
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
Inspiration
"Each one of us is but a small instrument; all of us together play the music of God's love."
Faith
"Giving with a joyful heart is the greatest gift."
Gratitude
"We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody else will do."
"Poverty of spirit is the greatest poverty of all."
Wisdom