Motivational and Inspirational Quotes by Mother Teresa

 

Motivational and Inspirational Quotes by Mother Teresa

1. "Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
2. "If you want to change the world, go home and love your family."
3. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
4. "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
5. "I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
6. "We can do no great things, only small things with great love."
7. "The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."
8. "Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
9. "Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead."
10. "Intense love does not measure, it just gives."
11. "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
12. "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."
13. "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
14. "Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."
15. "Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
16. "The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love."
17. "I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world."
18. "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
19. "There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things."
20. "I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."
21. "Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired."
22. "It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into doing it."
23. "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
24. "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
25. "Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action."
26. "Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
27. "Love is a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
28. "People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway."

By Mother Teresa