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 and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spent years building
may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help
but may attack you if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have
and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997)
“I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ
into the slums to serve him among the poorest of the poor.”
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu of Skopje, Yugoslavia was the youngest of three children of an Albanian builder • Her work among the poverty-stricken in Calcutta made her one of the world’s most famous individuals • She became a nun in 1928 and determined to go to Calcutta to teach at a convent school • She pursued medical training in Paris then gained permission to work alone in the slums of Calcutta • She founded the Missionaries of Charity and opened a home for the dying poor • In 1957 she began work with lepers
and victims of natural disasters • Won her first prize in 1962 for humanitarian work: the Padma Shri Award for Distinguished Service • Used the money from such prizes to found dozens of charity homes • Pope Paul VI awarded her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971 • She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 • In 1982 she enabled a ceasefire in wartorn Beirut to rescue 37 disabled children from a • In 1985 she was awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom • In 2003 Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II.
