60+ Best Quotes by Mother Teresa part 3 of 5 | Life Quotes

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu(born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. 

In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, and also profess a fourth vow – to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor." 

Mother Teresa was an inspiration to countless millions for her lifelong devotion to the neediest and most vulnerable of the world. The selflessness and sacrifice with which she lived her own life made her an international symbol of charitable work, and the love and compassion she showed the destitute of all faiths received a number of honors, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day.

Mother Teresa's Quotes:

1. “Life is a song, sing it.
   Life is a struggle, accept it.”


2. “A life not lived for others is not a life.”


3. “Peace begins with a smile.”


4. "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."


5. “Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
   Life is beauty, admire it.
   Life is a dream, realize it.”


6. “Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.”


7. “Life is a challenge, we must take it.”


8. “We fear the future because we are wasting today.”


9. “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.
   But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”


10. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”


11. “The first step to becoming is to will it.”


12. “When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.”


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

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60+ Best Quotes by Mother Teresa:

Part 1: God’s Love & Faithfulness

Part 2: Hunger and Poverty

Part 3: Life Quotes

Part 4: Quotes on Love

Part 5: Kindness and Generosity