Here are 30 most inspiring Mother Teresa Quotes for giving you the motivation to live a kinder and happier life in today’s selfish world.
Born on 26 August, Mother Teresa is also known as Saint Teresa. Mother Teresa founded Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, dedicated to charitable work. The Nobel laureate who spent most of her life serving the poor most of her life selflessly will keep inspiring us through her insightful and powerful words.
Here are some selected Mother Teresa Quotes to give you the courage to be kinder in today’s self-centered world.
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~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 will never know how much a simple smile can do.” ~Mother Teresa
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” ~Mother Teresa
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” ~Mother Teresa
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” ~Mother Teresa
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” ~Mother Teresa
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” ~Mother Teresa
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” ~Mother Teresa
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” ~Mother Teresa
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”~Mother Teresa
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“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
“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
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” ~Mother Teresa
“I want you to be concerned about your next-door neighbor. Do you know your next-door neighbor?” ~Mother Teresa
“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” ~Mother Teresa
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ~Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ~Mother Teresa
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” ~Mother Teresa
“Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.” ~Mother Teresa
“Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.” ~Mother Teresa
“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.” ~Mother Teresa
“Not all of us can do great things, But we can do small things with great love.” ~Mother Teresa
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” ~Mother Teresa
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” ~Mother Teresa
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, either praise neither disgrace, because you know what you are” ~Mother Teresa
“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.” ~Mother Teresa
At IForHer, we wish the world learns from the examples of Mother Teresa, and all of us come together to make it a better place.