Mother Teresa Quotes

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

I want to do something to help people.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

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

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home.

I love donating my time and serving other people. Just seeing the faces of people in need light up when they see you... There is no way I can put it into words. You feel like you did something right.

Everything I've ever thought about doing has been, in some sense, about helping people.

Really, I just want to help my family, my friends and people in general.

I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health.

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

Each of us can do something to help someone.

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own

You don't have to be one of the Elders. You don't have to be well known. You just have to be determined to care about people. That's all it takes.

I know for a fact that I am not as fulfilled, happy or passionate about life if I have not spent time helping others.

There are so many places, particularly right now. Go and volunteer at a food bank. If you play the piano, go play the piano in an Alzheimer's home. Or read in an Alzheimer's home. Help a military family with babysitting. The opportunities are endless. People often think 'They want me?' or 'I can be of help?' What we try to say here is 'Be who you are.'Feel that, live it and pass it on.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.

I love helping people; just being of service makes me happy!

I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.