40 Caregiver Quotes for Strength and Comfort
If you’re familiar with the selfless dedication required in caregiving, you understand the emotional toll it can take.
Whether you’re looking after a loved one or a patient, sometimes, a simple word of encouragement can greatly alleviate caregiver burnout.
To help maintain a positive mindset, here are 40 inspirational caregiver quotes designed to offer support and boost your spirits during challenging times.
Our Favorite Caregiver Quotes
“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters.”
Amy Leigh Mercree
“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
“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
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
– Lao Tzu
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
– Carl W. Buechner
“Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible.”
– Tia Walker
“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
“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”
– Tia Walker
“To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.”
– Anonymous
“Be in the moment with them. They may not remember you are there, but YOU do.”
Joyce O. C.
“What I would say to my Dad on a bad dementia day, ‘We do better when we work together.’ I needed his help to be able to help him.”
Colleen K. G.
“Like airplane passengers, let’s not forget to put on our own oxygen masks first … we are no good to our loved ones if we collapse under the strain.”
Peter B.
“You can stress about things out of your control, or you can turn them over to God. When you release things because there is nothing you can do, you turn them over to someone who has a bigger plan and a bigger control than you.”
Amy A.
“When you visit someone’s CaringBridge website, send Well Wishes. That’s huge. It cheers you on … you see that people are there with you, through the heartache.”
Molly S.
“Take comfort in knowing you don’t need to fill up the silence to have a visit be meaningful.”
Margaret S.
“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
– Carson McCullers
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”
– Jim Rohn
“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
“Sometimes asking for help is the most meaningful example of self-reliance.”
– Cory Booker
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
– Dalai Lama
“It is not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.”
– Lena Horne
“Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.”
– Mason Cooley
“Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.”
– Chogyam Trungpa
“We rise by lifting others.”
– Robert Ingersoll
“The disease might hide the person underneath, but there’s still a person in there who needs your love and attention.”
– Jamie Calandriello
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.”
– Emory Austin
“God gave burdens; he also gave shoulders.”
– Yiddish Proverb
“It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing.”
– Mother Teresa
“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
“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.”
– Denis Waitley
“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 Iacocca
“Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.”
– Rollo May
“Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.”
– Thomas Merton
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
– Margaret Mead
“Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life.”
– Gary Zukav
“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.”
– Harold Kushner
“The simple act of caring is heroic.”
– Edward Albert
“One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.”
– Jim Rohn
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
– Michael J. Fox
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
– G.K. Chesterton
“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live.”
– Joan Baez
“Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
– Bernice Johnson Reagon
“Caregiving is a constant learning experience.”
– Vivian Frazier
