Quotes by Mother Teresa
Explore 32 approved quotes attributed to Mother Teresa.
About Mother Teresa

Albanian-Indian Catholic saint · 1910 – 1997
“We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.”
— Mother TeresaLove quotes“If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.”
— Mother TeresaWould Be quotes“I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.”
— Mother TeresaAdversity quotes“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
— Mother TeresaLove quotes“Small things done with great love will change the world.”
— Mother TeresaGreat Love quotes“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 TeresaInspirational quotes“Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you”
— Mother TeresaCharacter quotes“Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”
— Mother TeresaBlessing quotes“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 TeresaGiving quotes“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
— Mother TeresaStrength quotes“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 TeresaKindness quotes“I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.”
— Mother TeresaPrayer quotes