Mother Teresa Quotes

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

You don't need a reason to help people.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

In our culture, the people who have the most respect are not those who have the most material possessions or those who have accomplished the most. It is the people who have helped others the most.

The end of all education should surely be service to others

Now Hillary Clinton and I are 'companeros de alma.' And we share this basic belief: it's simple. Do all the good you can and serve one another. Pretty simple.

I want to be able to serve people. For that it's important that I'm with them, among them and working for them.

My goal has always been to help as many people as I can.

I try to help everybody that I can.

Saving people, helping people, is just something I always wanted to do.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.

We are only fully alive when we're helping others

The world needs people who save lives.

I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I'm going. If it means suffering, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS.

I am busy with my work. My path is clear. I see somebody dying, I pick him up. I find somebody hungry, I give him food. He can love and be loved. I don't look at his color, I don't look at his religion.