Mother Teresa Quotes
Most popular Mother Teresa Quotes
![Love begins at home. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/07/9107A-love-begins-at-home-mother-teresa.png)
Love begins at home.
![Peace begins with a smile. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/82/51982A-peace-begins-with-a-smile-mother-teresa.png)
Peace begins with a smile.
![Love in action is service. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/41/39641A-love-in-action-is-service-mother-teresa.png)
Love in action is service.
![God loves a cheerful giver. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/34/31734A-god-loves-a-cheerful-giver-mother-teresa.png)
God loves a cheerful giver.
![I see God in every human being. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/08/13508A-i-see-god-in-every-human-being-mother-teresa.png)
I see God in every human being.
![Where there is a love, there is a joy. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/96/16096A-where-there-is-a-love-there-is-joy-mother-teresa.png)
Where there is a love, there is a joy.
![Let us always meet each other with a smile. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/75/16375A-let-us-always-meet-each-other-with-smile-mother-teresa.png)
Let us always meet each other with a smile.
![One filled with joy preaches without preaching. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/00/14800A-one-filled-with-joy-preaches-without-preaching-mother-teresa.png)
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
![I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/13/17013A-i-do-not-pray-for-success-i-ask-faithfulness-mother-teresa.png)
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
![If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/90/13890A-if-you-judge-people-you-have-no-time-love-them-mother-teresa.png)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
![What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/02/7402A-what-i-do-you-cannot-do-but-what-you-do-mother-teresa.png)
What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do.
![If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/89/13189A-if-you-cant-feed-a-hundred-people-then-feed-just-mother-teresa.png)
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
![Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/64/7464A-do-not-wait-for-leaders-do-it-alone-person-person-mother-teresa.png)
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
![We can do no great things; only small things with great love. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/09/17009A-we-can-do-no-great-things-only-small-things-with-mother-teresa.png)
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
![Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/12/6912A-let-no-one-ever-come-to-you-without-leaving-better-mother-teresa.png)
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
![Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/56/34156A-kindness-has-converted-more-people-than-zeal-science-or-eloquence-mother-teresa.png)
Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.
![It is not how much we do . . . but how much love we put in that action. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/27/7427A-it-is-not-how-much-we-do-but-how-much-mother-teresa.png)
It is not how much we do . . . but how much love we put in that action.
![Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/14/17014A-loneliness-and-the-feeling-of-being-unwanted-is-most-terrible-mother-teresa.png)
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
![Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/49/50849A-be-faithful-in-small-things-because-it-is-them-that-mother-teresa.png)
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
![I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/55/34155A-i-prefer-you-to-make-mistakes-kindness-than-work-miracles-mother-teresa.png)
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
![Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/28/13228A-love-is-a-fruit-in-season-at-all-times-within-mother-teresa.png)
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
![Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/86/5186A-kind-words-can-be-short-and-easy-speak-but-their-mother-teresa.png)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
![Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/12/17012A-many-people-mistake-our-work-for-our-vocation-our-vocation-mother-teresa.png)
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
![Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/00/51700A-let-us-always-meet-each-other-with-smile-smile-is-mother-teresa.png)
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
![If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/60/51960A-if-we-have-no-peace-it-is-because-we-have-mother-teresa.png)
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
![Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/59/12759A-loneliness-and-the-feeling-of-being-uncared-unwanted-are-greatest-mother-teresa.png)
Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty.
![I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/10/17010A-im-a-little-pencil-in-the-hand-writing-god-who-mother-teresa.png)
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
![I always say I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/72/29372A-i-always-say-i-am-a-little-pencil-gods-hands-mother-teresa.png)
I always say I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing.
![The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/11/17011A-the-biggest-disease-today-is-not-leprosy-or-tuberculosis-but-mother-teresa.png)
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
![Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/45/1245A-let-nothing-perturb-you-nothing-frighten-you-all-things-pass-mother-teresa.png)
Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.
![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 quote.](/img/q/54/13154A-we-ourselves-feel-that-what-we-are-doing-is-just-mother-teresa.png)
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.
![How many times have we picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels! - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/09/37909A-how-many-times-have-we-picked-up-streets-human-beings-mother-teresa.png)
How many times have we picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!
![There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/54/34154A-there-is-hunger-for-ordinary-bread-there-is-hunger-love-mother-teresa.png)
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty.
![The worst illness today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but the sense of being unwanted, of not being loved, of being abandoned by all. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/85/33385A-the-worst-illness-today-is-not-leprosy-or-tuberculosis-but-mother-teresa.png)
The worst illness today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but the sense of being unwanted, of not being loved, of being abandoned by all.
![Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/80/13480A-duty-is-a-very-personal-thing-it-is-what-comes-mother-teresa.png)
Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
![Charity, to be fruitful, must cost us. Give until it hurts. To love it is necessary to give; to give it is necessary to be free from selfishness. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/11/28011A-charity-to-be-fruitful-must-cost-us-give-until-it-mother-teresa.png)
Charity, to be fruitful, must cost us. Give until it hurts. To love it is necessary to give; to give it is necessary to be free from selfishness.
![Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/34/39034A-riches-both-material-and-spiritual-can-choke-you-if-you-mother-teresa.png)
Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.
![Joy is prayer; joy is strength; joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/56/34056A-joy-is-prayer-joy-is-strength-joy-is-love-joy-mother-teresa.png)
Joy is prayer; joy is strength; joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy.
![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 we could see. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/08/53608A-there-must-be-a-reason-why-some-people-can-afford-mother-teresa.png)
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 we could see.
![Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/30/29530A-sweetest-lord-make-me-appreciative-of-dignity-my-high-vocation-mother-teresa.png)
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
![Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. - Mother Teresa quote.](/img/q/82/17482A-smile-at-each-other-smile-at-your-wife-smile-at-mother-teresa.png)
Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other - it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Love is a fruit, in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set.