Inspirational Quotes from Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

People are often unreasonable and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.  Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.
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.

Not all of us can do great things.  But we can do small things with great love.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle.  I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Peace begins with a smile.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

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?’

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary.  What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

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.  There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.  The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

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.

Never worry about numbers.  Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered.  Love them anyway.

Without patience, we will learn less in life.  We will see less.  We will feel less.  We will hear less.  Ironically, rush and more usually means less.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.