100 Amazing Mother Teresa Quotes on Love, Peace, Fear And More

Mother Teresa was a nun and a great Roman Catholic saint who helped many of the poor people by establishing the Order of the Missionaries of Charity. She is considered one of the most humanists of the 20th century.

So, let’s know about Mother Teresa’s life and her great works. And after that, we are going to see some famous mother Teresa quotes with images. So if you like these posts and quotes, then definitely share it with your friends.

Who Is Mother Teresa?

Mother Teresa’s real name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was born in a Kosovar Albanian family in Skopje, North Macedonia. Her father’s name was Nikollë Bojaxhiu, an Albanian-politician in Ottoman Macedonia. 

In addition, her father was an entrepreneur who traded medicines and other goods. And her mother’s name was Dranafile Bojaxhiu. Her father died when Mother Teresa was eight years old. 

Mother Teresa Earlier Life :

She did not study much but completed his primary Study at a convent-run primary school and state secondary school. Apart from that, she was also a good singer and sing in the local Sacred Heart.

When Teresa was younger, she was greatly influenced by the stories of the missionaries’ lives and their service in Bengal. When she was 12 years old, she went on a pilgrimage to the Black Madonna Church in Latinis, since then Teresa’s interest in religious life grew.

Mother Teresa Religious Life :

In 1928 Teresa left home to pursue her dream of making a missionary and joined Loreto’s sisters in Rathfarnham, Ireland. After that, she never went to her home.

Teresa came to India in 1929 and learned Bengali. She taught poor children at St. Mary’s Girl’s High School near her convent in Darjeeling. She took her first religious vow on 24 May 1931 and choose the name Teresa for himself by her Spanish name.

On May 24, 1937, she pledged that she would help the poor people throughout her life and would practice purity and obedience. According to the custom of the Loretto nuns, after spending many years teresa received the title of “Mother” and thus came to be known as Mother Teresa.

She continued to teach in the school until 1944 and after that, she became the principal of the school. With her kindness and generosity, she changed the lives of many students.

Mother Teresa always asked for only one thing from God: “God, give me the strength to be the light of everyone’s life so that I can bring them to you.”

It was felt on September 10, 1946, when she boarded a train from Calcutta to the foothills of the Himalayas. She said that Christ had asked him to help the poor and sickest people in the city.

So she left the Loreto Convent in January 1948 moved to the city. Where she first traveled to the slums of Calcutta. Mother Teresa started an open-air school helping the poor of the city.

In October 1950, She established a new congregation, Missionaries of Charity. As soon as people came to know about this, she started receiving donations from India and around the world.

In the 1950s and 1960s, she established a number of institutions such as the Kopar Colony, orphanages, nursing homes, family clinics and mobile health clinics.

International Works by Mother Teresa :

Apart from India, she also helped the people of the world greatly. Mother Teresa said “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. According to my call, I belong to the world. My heart is completely related to the heart of Jesus.”

In 1982, Teresa rescued 37 children trapped between the Israeli military and Palestinian guerrillas. Teresa helped the starving people in Ethiopia and the radiation victims of the chemical accident in Chernobyl. Besides that, she has also helped the earthquake victims in Armenia.

Similarly, by 1996, Teresa operated 517 missions in more than 100 countries, helping people. Her Missionaries of Charity has 450 centers worldwide.

Awards :

Mother Teresa received many awards for her great work. She was awarded the Jewel of India, the highest honor given to Indian citizens, as well as the Gold Medal of the Peace Committee of the Soviet Union. Also in 1979, She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mother Teresa Death :

Teresa had a heart attack in 1983 when she went to visit Pope John Paul II in Rome. Then after the second attack in 1989, she was implanted with an artificial pacemaker. In April 1996, she underwent surgery for heart disease.

On 13 March 1997, Teresa resigned as head of the Missionaries of Charity, and thereafter died of a heart attack on 5 September. She was cremated by five priests and the Pope’s representative, Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano. 

Teresa’s death grieved many secular and religious communities around the world. Her life is one of the highest examples of service to humanity to care for the poor, the sick and the underprivileged.

Mother Teresa Quotes :

When you don’t have anything, then you have everything. — Mother Teresa

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

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life. — Mother Teresa

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

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. — Mother Teresa

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. — Mother Teresa

The first step to becoming is to will it. — Mother Teresa

Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit. — Mother Teresa

We must never forget that we are bound toward perfection and should aim ceaselessly at it. — Mother Teresa

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

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. — Mother Teresa

Work without love is slavery. — Mother Teresa

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best. — Mother Teresa

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world. — Mother Teresa

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. — Mother Teresa

Be strict with yourself, and then be very strict with what you are receiving from the outside. — Mother Teresa

The less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is freedom. — Mother Teresa

Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do ‘Nothing’ for you. — Mother Teresa

Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. — Mother Teresa

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. — Mother Teresa

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. — Mother Teresa

Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt. — Mother Teresa

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. — Mother Teresa

The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire. — Mother Teresa

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway. — Mother Teresa

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.  Succeed anyway. — Mother Teresa

Live simply so others may simply live. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Inspirational Quotes :

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. — Mother Teresa

Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses. — Mother Teresa

You are greater than you know. — Mother Teresa

The poor give us much more than we give them. They’re such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don’t have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them. — Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. — Mother Teresa

When you have nothing left but God, you have more than enough to start over again. — Mother Teresa

If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers. — Mother Teresa

If we are humble, nothing will change us, neither praise, nor discouragement. — Mother Teresa

Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. — Mother Teresa

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best. — Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa Life Quotes :

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. — Mother Teresa

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. — Mother Teresa

Life is a challenge; we must take it. — Mother Teresa

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Love :

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home. — Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do. — Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. — Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa

Whenever you share love with others, you’ll notice the peace that comes to you and to them. — Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives. — Mother Teresa

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Kindness :

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. — Mother Teresa

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Service :

The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action. — Mother Teresa

Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Family :

The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family. — Mother Teresa

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family. — Mother Teresa

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Giving :

We have to possess before we can give. — Mother Teresa

True love is giving and giving until it hurts. — Mother Teresa

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you’ve got anyway. — Mother Teresa

If you give what you do not need, it is not giving. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Smile Quotes :

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. — Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa Quotes on Peace :

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion. — Mother Teresa

If now we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten how to see God in one another. — Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa Quotes on Prayer :

I do not pray for success; I ask for faithfulness. — Mother Teresa

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes About Helping Others :

A life not lived for others is not a life. — Mother Teresa

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on God :

God speaks in the silence of the heart. — Mother Teresa

I know God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much. — Mother Teresa

Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary. — Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love. — Mother Teresa

God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist. — Mother Teresa

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in. — Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. — Mother Teresa

God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes on Do It Anyway :

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Abortion Quotes :

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want. — Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Quotes About Fear :

I fear just one thing: Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus. — Mother Teresa