1,029 Quotes by Mother Teresa

Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in, Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier and it will come naturally.

Do small things, with great love.

What you do to these men on California’s Death Row, you do to God.

My secret is simple – I pray.

Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.

You can pray while you work. Work doesn’t stop prayer and prayer doesn’t stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.

The simplest way of becoming his light is by being kind and loving, thoughtful, and sincere with others: ‘By this they will know that you are his disciples.’

I don’t claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

If I’d never have picked up the first person, I’d never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.