33 Quotes About Caring To Help Share The Love

Monisha Kochhar
Dec 12, 2023 By Monisha Kochhar
Originally Published on Mar 17, 2021
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Why Caring Quotes

Caring is a very basic human emotion. It plays an important role in forming connections with others. It strengthens existing bonds and helps to create new ones.

Whenever we see someone in trouble or pain, wanting to help comes instinctively. Caring for other and being sympathetic goes hand in hand. Caring about someone or something makes you completely invested and passionate about it.

When you care about something, it gives that person or object power over you. It can affect your moods.

A few may think that caring makes you vulnerable, but caring deeply about things also gives you the power to take action to change them. Caring about yourself, other people, and other things gives you strength and builds emotional maturity. These quotes about caring help us look at the emotion from a dynamic perspective.

What Parents Should Know

When a person deeply cares about someone or something, it can easily affect and influence their mood, perspective, and lifestyle.

Being sympathetic and caring leaves you vulnerable, especially if these feelings are not reciprocated.

Empathy and caring for others is a social skill that helps create strong and long-lasting bonds.

What To Discuss With Children

Self-care is equally, if not more important than caring for others.

There is no such thing as "caring too much". All feelings are valid, and it is completely okay to be invested in anything that interests you.

Caring about something is a great way of staying motivated to act. The more you care, the more you want to engage with that activity, thing, or person.
 

Best Caring Quotes

1. “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. ” - Theodore Roosevelt

2. “From caring comes courage.” - Lao Tzu

3. “One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.” - Jim Rohn

4. “A smile is a light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.” - Denis Waitley

5. “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

6. “I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.” - Pablo Casals

7. “Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.” - Harold Kushner

8. “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

9. “When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.” - Langston Hughes

10. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

11. “Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.” - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

12. “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

13. “When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.” - Nicholas Sparks

14. “People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.” - Ann Landers

15. “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

16. “We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.” - Seneca

Amazing Caring Quotes On Caring For Others

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17. “Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.” - Margaret Mead

18. “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

19. “Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.” - Tracy McMillan

20. “I find myself born into this particular position. I’m determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.” - Prince Charles

21. “We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem. Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” - Fred Rogers

22. “To be successful is to be helpful, caring, and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.” - Norman Vincent Peale

23. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” - Albert Einstein

24. “The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.” - Carson McCullers

25. “The right mixture of caring and not caring – I suppose that’s what love is.” - James Hilton

26. “Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.” - Martha Beck

27. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” - Marcus Aurelius

28. “My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer - it's really strong. We're deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I'm very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love to grow.” - Kali Uchis

29. “There's nobody who cares more about you than you, and there's nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.” - Rush Limbaugh

30. “When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn't stay loyal to you, they don't stay your friend for very long.” - John Cena

31. “All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.” - James Russell Lowell

32. “Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.” - Mary Catherine Bateson

33. "When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability." - Brene Brown

34. “I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.” - Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

35. “Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.” - Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

36. “I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop.” - Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

37. “Caring too much for someone who doesn't care for you can make you emotionally drained too.” - Garima Soni, Words World

38. “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 

39. “We are but each other's keeper.” - Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

40. “Leadership is not being in charge, it is about taking care of people in your charge.” - Simon Sinek

41. “I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” - Audre Lorde

42. “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

43. “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

44. “It hurts to care about someone more than they care about themselves. I can tell that story from both sides” - Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

45. "Some people care too much. I think it’s called love." - Winnie the Pooh

46. "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 Mandin

47. "Never be so busy as not to think of others." - William Shakespeare

48. “The simple act of caring is heroic.” - Edward Albert

49. “You really can change the world if you care enough.” - Marian Wright Edelman

50. “Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it, and the child heals.” - Martha Beck

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Written by Monisha Kochhar

Bachelor of Arts Hons specializing in Modern Languages (French and Spanish)

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Monisha KochharBachelor of Arts Hons specializing in Modern Languages (French and Spanish)

A Modern Languages graduate from the University College London, Monisha with a passion for travel and exploring different cultures. She is fluent in French and Spanish and is currently learning Hindi. Monisha enjoys discovering new foods and is an avid sports fan, following soccer and Formula 1. In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis and watching TV shows.

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