Mother Teresa Quotes

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

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. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don’t only give your care, but give your heart as well.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

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

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

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

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

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

Small things done with great love will change the world.

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

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.

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

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.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.