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Quotes By Mother Teresa

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Saint

Mother Teresa

Aug 26, 1910 - Sep 05, 1997

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

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

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

God doesn't require you to succeed, he only requires that you try.

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

What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

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

I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile

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

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

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and yougave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

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

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.