Mother Teresa Quotes

A collection of my favorite Mother Teresa quotes. Her words of wisdom are a testament to her life of service. May these Mother Teresa quotations motivate and inspire you to serve others as well.

Mother Teresa Quotations

"True love causes pain...
If you really love one another,
you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices."
- Mother Teresa


"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
- Mother Teresa


"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."
- Mother Teresa


"To service the poor purely for the love of God."
- Mother Teresa


"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
- Mother Teresa


"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. "
- 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


"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
- Mother Teresa


"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."
- Mother Teresa


"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world."
- Mother Teresa


I hope these Mother Teresa quotes help you find inpiration and motivation to help others and to serve others.

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