Mother Teresa Quotes

Mother Teresa Quotes

These Mother Teresa quotes will highlight some of the best quotes from Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Born as Agnesa Gonxha Bojaxhiu (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian descent. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in India.

Mother Teresa's work among the poverty-stricken of Kolkata (Calcutta) made her one of the most well-known people in the world. She was also sometimes referred to as the "Angel of Mercy" and "Saint of the Gutter" by her supporters.

She's a remarkable woman and her wisdom will speak to your heart.

May you find great inspiration and humility from these Mother Teresa quotes!

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
-- 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

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
-- Mother Teresa

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
-- Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
-- Mother Teresa

If we 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

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
-- Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
-- Mother Teresa

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
-- Mother Teresa

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
-- Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
-- Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
-- 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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
-- Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
-- Mother Teresa

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
-- Mother Teresa

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
-- 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

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.
-- Mother Teresa

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