25 Famous Mother Teresa Quotes
Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje, North Macedonia) was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who dedicated her life to serving the world’s poorest, founding the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1950, and becoming a global symbol of selfless service, earning the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize and later being canonized as a saint in 2016.
- “Small things done with great love will change the world.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “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 can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other’s failures – rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “I don’t do great things. I do small things with great love.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “The greatest good is what we do for others.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I’m supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I’m praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “If you can’t do great things, do little things with great love. If you can’t do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can’t do them with a little love, do them anyway.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “There is no key to happiness; the door is always open” ~ Mother Teresa
- “God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.” ~ Mother Teresa
