Top 200 Care Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.”

— Bryant McGill

52. “And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can’t teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

53. “I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.”

— Dolly Parton

54. “Your health and well being should be your number one priority, nothing else is more important.”

— Robert Cheeke

55. “There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.”

— Oliver Sacks

56. “Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others.”

— Oprah Winfrey

57. “Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.”

— Chief Seattle

58. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

59. “A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

— George Eliot

60. “Lean on me, when you’re not strong and I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on.”

— Bill Withers

61. “Life is short. Don’t miss opportunities to spend time with the people that you love.”

— Joel Osteen

62. “The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.”

— Rick Warren

63. “Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.”

— Wilferd Peterson

64. “What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

— Saint Augustine

65. “Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”

— Charles M. Schulz

66. “As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

67. “Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.”

— Earl Nightingale

68. “The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.”

— Simon Sinek

69. “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”

— Bob Hope

70. “Let us always pray for one another.”

— Pope Francis

71. “You’re amazing, just the way you are.”

— Bruno Mars

72. “A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.”

— Leo Buscaglia

73. “Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

74. “Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

75. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

76. “Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.”

— Mother Teresa

77. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.”

— Maya Angelou

78. “By lifting each other up we lift ourselves up.”

— Lauren Fleshman

79. “Pray, hope and don’t worry. Anxiety doesn’t help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.”

— Pio of Pietrelcina

80. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”

— Maya Angelou

81. “Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.”

— Mother Teresa

82. “Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.”

— Florence Nightingale

83. “I love and approve of myself. I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun.”

— Louise Hay

84. “We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.”

— Billy Graham

85. “Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

86. “If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

87. “You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.”

— Cicely Saunders

88. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

— Mother Teresa

89. “A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”

— A. A. Milne

90. “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”

— Randy Pausch

91. “Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.”

— Rumi

92. “Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.”

— Hippocrates

93. “The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.”

— Pope Francis

94. “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”

— Mother Teresa

95. “Caring is the essence of nursing.”

— Jean Watson

96. “You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don’t let the storm make you forget it.”

— Russell T. Davies

97. “Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”

— Erich Fromm

98. “Love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep on watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.”

— John Lennon

99. “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”

— Nicholas Sparks

100. “Never be so busy as not to think of others.”

— Mother Teresa