Top 99 Mother Teresa Quotes On Life Do It Anyway

Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun who dedicated her life to serving the poor and destitute. Her words of wisdom continue to inspire people all over the world. Here are the top 99 quotes from Mother Teresa on life and doing it anyway:

1. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
2. “Spread love everywhere you go.”
3. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
4. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
5. “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”
6. “Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.”
7. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
8. “I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
9. “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
10. “We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.”
11. “Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”
12. “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?'”
13. “There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point.”
14. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
15. “Peace begins with a smile.”
16. “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.”
17. “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.”
18. “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.”
19. “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”
20. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
21. “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.”
22. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
23. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
24. “I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
25. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
26. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
27. “We are all pencils in the hand of God.”
28. “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
29. “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.”
30. “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
31. “I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.”
32. “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
33. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
34. “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.”
35. “I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love—it is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit, and supplies passion to our lives.”
36. “We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
37. “People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”
38. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
39. “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.”
40. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
41. “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”
42. “I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
43. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
44. “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”
45. “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
46. “The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”
47. “The good you do today will often be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
48. “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?'”
49. “I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?'”
50. “There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.”
51. “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”
52. “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.”
53. “I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
54. “I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”
55. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
56. “I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself) what do they feel when they do this? I don’t understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don’t understand.”
57. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”
58. “If you want to bring happiness to the whole world, go home and love your family.”
59. “I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”
60. “I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love—it is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit, and supplies passion to our lives.”
61. “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.”
62. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
63. “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.”

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