Mother Teresa Motivational Quotes
1. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
— Mother Teresa
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
— Mother Teresa
- Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
— Mother Teresa
- If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
— Mother Teresa
- We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
— Mother Teresa
- I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.
— Mother Teresa
- I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
— Mother Teresa
- Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
- Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
— Mother Teresa
- Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
— Mother Teresa
- Peace begins with a smile.
— Mother Teresa
- I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?’
— Mother Teresa
- If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
— Mother Teresa
- Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.
— Mother Teresa
- Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
— Mother Teresa
- There are no great things, only small things with great love.
— Mother Teresa
- Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
— Mother Teresa
- God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
— 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
- Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
— Mother Teresa
- Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
— Mother Teresa
- The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.
— Mother Teresa
- There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
— Mother Teresa
- Intense love does not measure; it just gives.
— Mother Teresa
- The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
— 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
- Love begins by taking care of the closest ones—the ones at home.
— Mother Teresa
- Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
— Mother Teresa
- Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
— Mother Teresa
- If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
— Mother Teresa
- We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
— 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
- The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
— Mother Teresa
- We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
— Mother Teresa
- God has not called me to be successful. He called me to be faithful.
—Mother Teresa
- I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
— Mother Teresa
- A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your own weakness.
— Mother Teresa
- Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
— Mother Teresa
- We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
— Mother Teresa
- Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
— Mother Teresa
- I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?
— Mother Teresa
- Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.
— Mother Teresa
- I think I’m more difficult than critical.
— Mother Teresa
- If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
— Mother Teresa
- God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
—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
- 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
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