Mother Teresa Quotes!

The movie is very good but it left out some of her best quotes. She was a fairly dynamic speaker who had a lot philosophical wisdom which came out in her talks and preaching.


People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. ― Mother Teresa

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me. ― Mother Teresa

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. ― Mother Teresa

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things. ― Mother Teresa

In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine 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

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

There’s nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there’s some one fighting with you. ― Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted--Mother Teresa

When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, “What can we do to promote world peace?” She answered “Go home and love your family. ― Mother Teresa
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. ― Mother Teresa


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. – Mother Teresa

Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them…For as long as you are green, you can grow. ― Mother Teresa

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together. ― Mother Teresa

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

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. ― 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

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty — it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. ― Mother Teresa

At the hour of death when we come face-to-face with God, we are going to be judged on love; not how much we have done, but how much love we put into the doing. ― Mother Teresa -