Memorable Quotes and quotations from Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Indian humanitarian & missionary (1910 - 1997)


Mother Teresa - in her Nobel lecture
- Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.

Mother Teresa -
- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Mother Teresa -
- What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.

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

Mother Teresa -
- Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa -
- Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.

Mother Teresa -
- The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa -
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.

Mother Teresa -
- We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa -
- Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Mother Teresa -
- There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

Mother Teresa -
- Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa -
- If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

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

Mother Teresa -
- 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 home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

Mother Teresa -
- If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Mother Teresa - -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
- Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa -
- Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

Mother Teresa - Robin Williams
- You can do no great things, just small things with great love.