Quotes by 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.
• Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
• 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.
• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
• I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
• I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
• Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
• Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
• Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
• 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. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
• 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.
• 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.
• There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
• There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
• The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
• The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
• The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
• Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
• 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.
• Peace begins with a smile.
• Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
• One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
• Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
• Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
• Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
• Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
• Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
• The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
• Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
• Success is not always about greatness. It's about consistency in small things done with great love.
• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
• Greatness is not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things with extraordinary love.
• Never underestimate the power of small acts of kindness in a world hungry for love.
• Peace begins with a smile, but blooms into a garden of understanding.
• Spread love wherever you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
• Do small things with great love.
• Success is not always about greatness; it's about consistency in doing small things with great love.
• I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person
• Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today, let us begin.
• Success is not always about greatness, it's about consistency in doing small things with great love.
• Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
• True greatness lies not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things with extraordinary love.
• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person by person.
• Success is not about greatness, it's about consistency in doing small things with great love.
• Success is not always about greatness, it's mostly about consistency in doing small things with great love.
• Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person
• Do not wait for leaders; do it first, person to person.
• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be hero in your life and inspire others. Rise above the leader
• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person, where they find kindness and gratitude.
• Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person-to-person.
• Every service you do for someone is a demonstration of love.
• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person, silently
• Do not wait for great leaders; do it alone, person to person.
• Do not wait for leaders; do it now, person to person
• Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
• Aspire not to have more, but to be more
• Spread love wherever you go; let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
• Success is not measured by what you have achieved, but by how many lives you have touched along the way.
• Spread love wherever you go, let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person-to-person.
• Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
• Do small things with great love
• Adventure may hurt you, but monotonous safety will kill you.