Caring is an essential aspect of human nature that allows us to show empathy and compassion for others.
When we show that we care about others, it can help to build trust and strengthen personal relationships. By expressing empathy and understanding, we can create a sense of belonging and connection with those around us. This can lead to deeper, more meaningful relationships and a greater sense of fulfillment for both the person receiving care and the person doing the caring. By caring for others, we can find a sense of purpose and fulfillment that goes beyond our own personal interests.
Caring also has a positive impact on the wider world. When we show empathy and compassion for those who are less fortunate, it can inspire us to take action to make the world a better place. This can lead to a more just and equitable society, benefiting not only the person on the receiving end of the care, but others facing the same challenges.
We’ve curated the best quotes about caring:
The Best Caring Quotes
Famous Quotes
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
— Margaret Mead
“Never be so busy as not to think of others.”
— Mother Teresa
“Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.”
— Jackie Chan
“As human beings, we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn’t come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.”
— Dalai Lama
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
— Og Mandino
“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. ”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”
— James Keller
Beautiful Caring Quotes
“To be successful is to be helpful, caring, and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
— Carson McCullers
“The simple act of caring is heroic.”
— Edward Albert
“You really can change the world if you care enough.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
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Caring for Others
“One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.”
— Jim Rohn
“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.”
— Harold Kushner
“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
— Maya Angelou
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
— John Joseph Powell
“When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.”
— Nicholas Sparks
“One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.”
— Joe Biden
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.”
— Peter Frampton
“Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.”
— Richard Dawson
“Nothing can wear you out like caring about people.”
— S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now
“Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.”
— Katie Reed
“Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”
— Princess Diana
“Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.”
— William Arthur Ward
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Caring for Someone You Love
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“The right mixture of caring and not caring — I suppose that’s what love is.”
— James Hilton
“Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.”
— Gary Zukav
“If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.”
— bell hooks
“Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it’s only through sharing that friendships are born.”
— Donna A. Favors
“Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.”
— Fred Rogers
“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”
— Winnie the Pooh
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Caring for the Elderly
“Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.”
— John Hoeven
“Love, care and treasure the elderly people in the society.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita
“A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work, such as caring for children and the elderly.”
— Rutger Bregman
“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”
— Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love
Caring for Yourself
“When people care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.”
— Langston Hughes
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
— Jack Kornfield
“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”
— Karl Marx
“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.”
— Audre Lorde
“Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.”
— Martha Beck
“You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.”
— Jonathan Van Ness
“When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.”
— Beyoncé
“Self-care is one of the active ways that I love myself. When you can and as you can, in ways that feel loving, make time and space for yourself.”
— Tracee Ellis Ross
“If you don’t love yourself, how the hell you gon’ love somebody else?”
— RuPaul
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”
— Jim Rohn
“Caring for your body, mind, and spirit is your greatest and grandest responsibility. It’s about listening to the needs of your soul and then honoring them.”
— Kristi Ling
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Short Quotes
“From caring comes courage.”
— Lao Tzu
“My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.”
— Prince William
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
— Albert Einstein
“People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another.”
— Ann Landers
“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Caring — about people, about things, about life — is an act of maturity.”
— Tracy McMillan
“The more you care, the stronger you can be.”
— Jim Rohn
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More Care-Related Quotes
“Nurturing is not complex. It’s simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher
“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.”
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.”
— Pablo Casals
“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference.”
— Amy Leigh
“Why should I care when no one else does? For the simple reason that the most critical time to care is when no one else does.”
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
“A smile is a light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.”
— Denis Waitley
“People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don’t consider it servitude.”
— Ann Landers
“I follow three rules: do the right thing, do your best, and always show people you care.”
— Lou Holtz
