Mother Teresa Quotes

Humility is attentive patience.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.

A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he accepts slander as truth; he does not attempt to persuade men that he is calumniated, but he begs forgiveness.

There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.