What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My prayer for you is that you may grow in the likeness of Christ, being real carriers of God's love and that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more:… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is no great difference in the reality of one country or another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Do you really know the living Jesus - not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand... — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally;… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
