Being a caregiver can present a lot of challenges. You may feel like you are being pulled in a myriad of directions.
From taking care of your own family, to now having to take care of your parent or other loved ones. You may feel yourself getting overwhelmed, under-appreciated, and stretched thin.
We have compiled a list of 75 quotes that we hope will give you inspiration, encouragement, and strength to fuel you in your caregiving journey!
“Compassion brings us to a stop and for a moment we rise above ourselves.”
Mason Cooley
“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”
Tia Walker
“The simple act of caring is heroic.”
Edward Albert
“We rise by lifting others.”
Robert Ingersoll
“Doctors diagnose, nurses heal, and caregivers make sense of it all.”
Brett H. Lewis
“Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible.”
Tia Walker
“Put one foot in front of the other no matter what. Enjoy the hilltop views, have courage in the valleys, pay attention to the bends in the road, cry when you have to, laugh when you can, be helpful to others, share your joys as well as your sorrows, and remember that God created you for a purpose.”
Eleanor Brown
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.”
Emory Austin
“We’re all just walking each other home.”
Ram Dass
“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
Jane Austen
“Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.”
Zig Ziglar
“There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need a caregiver.”
Rosalyn Carter
“One person caring about another represents life’s most significant value.”
Jim Rohn
“No one care until someone cares; be that one!”
Ken Poirot
“When people cared about each other they always found a way to make it work.”
Nicholas Sparks
“From caring comes courage.”
Lao Tzu
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
Sarah Dessen
“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”
Bob Marley
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
Barbara Bush
“It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing.”
Mother Theresa
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause…”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.”
Amy Leigh Mercree
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction our existence holds a purpose- a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.”
John C Maxwell
“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
Margaret Mead
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
“If you’re someone people count on, particularly in the difficult moments, that the sign of a life lived honorably.”
Rachel Maddow
“Sometimes asking for help is the most meaningful example of self-reliance.”
Cory Booker
“Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.”
Les Brown
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.”
Irish Proverb
“My caregiver mantra is to remember: The only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.”
Nancy L. Kriseman
“Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.”
Wayne Dyer
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only robs today of its joy.”
Leo Buscaglia
“It’s not the load that break you down. It’s the way you carry it.”
Lena Horne
“If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.”
Amy Tan
“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
Carson McCullers
“And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.”
Robert Fulghum
“Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.”
Rollo May
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
G.K. Chesterton
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
Bernice Johnson Reagon
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
Michael J. Fox
“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.”
Harold Kushner
“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.”
Denis Waitley
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”
Lee Lacocca
“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
“Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life.”
Gary Zukav
“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
“Caregiving is a constant learning experience.”
Vivian Frazier
“The day the roles reverse is foreign. It’s a clumsy dance of love and responsibility, not wanting to cross any lines of respect. It’s honoring this person who gave their life to you-not to mention literally gave you life-and taking their fragile body in your hands like a newborn, tending to their every need.”
Lisa Goich-Andreadis
“There will come a time when your loved one is gone, and you will find comfort in the fact that you were their caregiver.”
Karen Coetzer
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
Bernice Johnson Reagon
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“The disease might hide the person underneath, but there’s still a person in there who needs your love and attention.”
Jamie Calandriello
“Caregiving leaves its mark on us. No matter what we do to prepare ourselves, the hold left behind looms large.”
Dale L. Baker
“During the 24/7 grind of being a carer, it’s all too easy to forget the fact that the person you’re doing so much for, and is obliged to be, more resourceful than you in many respects.”
Naoki Higashida
“Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief. If you are a doctor or surgeon, your expertise and knowledge comes from a superior position. But when our role is to be providers of care, we should be there as equals.”
Judy Cornish
“Regardless of what challenge you are facing right now, know that it has not come to stay. It has come to pass. During these times, do what you can with what you have, and ask for help if needed. Most importantly, never surrender. Put things in perspective. Take care of yourself. Find ways to replenish your energy, strengthen your faith, and fortify yourself from the inside out.”
Les Brown
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
Carl W. Bueschner
“To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.”
Anonymous
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weight less than a single lovely action.”
James Russell Lowell
“We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences.”
Miya Yamanouchi
“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.”
Timber Hawkeye
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming-that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love or danger it would almost be easy to live.”
Albert Camus
“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
Unknown
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank
“A successful man is the one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley
“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in the finishing an activity but in doing it.”
Greg Anderson
“Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.”
Ralph Marston
Being a caregiver to a family member or friend is such a high honor, but that doesn’t mean that it is not difficult. I’m hoping these quotes put a smile on your face and helped encourage you to keep pressing on. You are special, valued and appreciated, friends.
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