Mother Teresa (1910-1997) : Albanian born nun, became a citizen of India in 1962. She founded the Missionaries of Charity dedicated to the destitute in Calcutta. She is the recipient.
In so many competitive examinations, the quotes related questions of great persons are being asked frequently. Having this in the mind, here the collection of 50 quotes from the quotations of Mother Teresa is given below.
of world's top awards including 1979 Nobel Prize and Bharat Ratna (1980), Honorary American Citizenship (November 1996). The process is on to confer Sainthood on her.
1. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
2. It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
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3. Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
4. Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
5. The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
6. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
7. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
8. How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
9. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
10. I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
11. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
12. Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
13. Live simply so others may simply live.
14. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
15. Peace begins with a smile.
16. We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
17. God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
18. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
19. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
20. Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
21. If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.
22. Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.
23. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
24. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
25. The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
26. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
27. I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
28. Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
29. Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.
30. If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.
31. Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
32. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
33. Give, but give until it hurts.
34. People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
35. The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
36. Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
37. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
38. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
39. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
40. The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.
41. What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
42. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
43. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
44. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
45. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
46. I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
47. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
48. A life not lived for others is not a life.
49. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
50. When you don't have anything, then you have everything.