Quotes by Mother Teresa

Love Anyway

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives; do good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.
The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow; do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable; be frank and honest anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build anyway.
People really need help but attack you if you help them; help them anyway.
Give the world the best you've got and you'll get kicked in the teeth; give the world the best you've got anyway.

I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the
heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence—we need to
listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and
through us that matters.

People are unreasonable,

illogical, and self-centered;

forgive them anyway.

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 some true enemies;

be successful anyway.

What you spend years

building, someone could

destroy overnight;

build anyway.

If you find serenity and

happiness, others may be

jealous; be happy anyway.

The good you do today,

people will often forget

tomorrow; do good anyway.

Give the world the best

you have, and it may never

be enough; give the world

your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is

between you and God.

It was never between you

and them anyway.

~ From a note found on the wall of Mother Teresa's room.

The success of love is in the loving- it is not in the result of loving.

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

In life it is not possible to do great things. But it is possible to do small things with great love.

Be a little pencil in the hand of God
who is sending a love letter to the word.

" It is not how much we do,
but how much love we put in the doing.

It is not how much we give,
but how much love we put in the giving."

People are often non-reliable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are successful,
You will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank,
People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

When you spend years building,
Someone may destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

The good you do today,
People will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have
And it may just not be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway.

You see, in the final analysis,
It is all between you and God.
It was never between you and them
Anyway.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.