Caring Quotes - Page 9

• Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

  Dorothy Height

  Progress, Needs, Credit

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  Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Able, Position, Persons

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.

  Martha Albrand

  World, Care, Worth Living

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• The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Prayer, Mind

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1995). “The Interior Castle”, Harpercollins

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• Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Confidence, Peace

  Thomas (a Kempis) (1850). “The Imitation of Christ: Four Books”, p.67

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• Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

  Marquis de Sade

  Soul, Feelings, May

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

  Francis Bacon

  Kindness, Kids, Mind

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• I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lasts, November, Remember

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.185, Xist Publishing

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• Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

  Thomas More

  Running, Roots, Challenges

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• Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

  Joel Osteen

  Love, Inspirational, Jesus

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• Love that cares, listens.

  Paul Tillich

  Love, Care

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• The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

  Peter Block

  Self, Community, Challenges

  Peter Block (2009). “Community: The Structure of Belonging”, p.14, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• When you are in Joy, you are compassionate. When you are in Joy, you are considerate and caring.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Joy, Compassionate, Considerate

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• Sharing is caring, but I don't care.

  Troye Sivan

  Care, I Don't Care, Don't Care

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• There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, Communication

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• Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.

  Sue Gunter

  Basketball, Practice, People

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• Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Self Esteem, People, Trying

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• If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Suicide, Hate, Believe

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• If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Wall, Thinking, Alive

  Brandon Sanderson (2012). “The Emperor's Soul”, p.111, Tachyon Publications

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• I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts.

  Jonathan Evison

  Life, Hurt, Giving

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• The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust.

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Stupidity, Mind

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• Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

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• If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

  Dalai Lama

  Opening Up, Focus, Helping

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• Comforting someone when they were stricken with loss was something else. It meant commitment. It meant caring. It meant you wanted to ease their pain, and at the same time you were thanking God that whatever the bad thing was that had happened, it hadn't happened to them.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Commitment, Loss

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t know what to do,” Will said. “Mortmain has taken Tessa, and I believe now I know where she might be. There is a part of me that wants nothing more than to go after her. But I cannot leave Jem. I swore an oath. And what if he wakes in the night and finds I am not here?” He looked as lost as a child. “He will think I left him willingly, not caring that he was dying. He will not know. And yet if he could speak, would he not tell me to go after Tessa? Is that not what he would want?” Will dropped his face into his hands. “I cannot say, and it is tearing me in half.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Believe, Taken

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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