Top 50 Mother Teresa Quotes KQOUTES

Mother Teresa, also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was a Catholic nun and missionary who dedicated her life to serving the poor and sick. She was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, North Macedonia, and was named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.

At the age of 18, Mother Teresa joined the Sisters of Loreto and moved to India, where she taught at a school for girls. In 1946, she received what she described as a “call within a call” to leave the convent and serve the poorest of the poor.

She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, a religious congregation that serves the destitute and dying in more than 130 countries. Mother Teresa and her sisters lived among the poor, often sleeping on the streets and begging for food and supplies to help those in need.

Mother Teresa received numerous honors for her humanitarian work, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87, and was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church on September 4, 2016.

Mother Teresa Quotes

“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the action that we do.”
— Mother Teresa

“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.”
— Mother Teresa

“We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.”
— Mother Teresa

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”
— Mother Teresa

“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”
— Mother Teresa

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
— 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

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
— Mother Teresa

“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
— Mother Teresa

“True love is a giving, and giving until it hurts.”
— 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

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
— Mother Teresa

“Love is not a sentiment. Love is a flame that consumes everything it touches.”
— Mother Teresa

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
— Mother Teresa

“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.”
— Mother Teresa

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
— Mother Teresa

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do 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

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
— Mother Teresa

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

“There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.”
— Mother Teresa

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
— Mother Teresa

“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”
— Mother Teresa

“Joy is strength.”
— Mother Teresa

“Being happy is not the result of having everything you want, but the realization of how much you have been blessed with.”
— Mother Teresa

“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.”
— Mother Teresa

“We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”
— Mother Teresa

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
— Mother Teresa

“The good you do today, will often be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
— Mother Teresa

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
— Mother Teresa

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”
— Mother Teresa

“It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.”
— Mother Teresa

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
— Mother Teresa

“Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.”
— Mother Teresa

“I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”
— 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.”
— Mother Teresa

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”
— Mother Teresa

“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
— 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

“Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
— 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.”
— Mother Teresa