Mother Teresa Inspirational Quotations

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

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

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

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

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

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a 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, singit. 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 life, fight for it!

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.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

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

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

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Give, but give until it hurts.

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.

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

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.

Peace begins with a smile.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.

There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

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.

Life is a game, play it.

Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.