Inspiring quotes for caregivers: 35 Inspirational Quotes for Caregivers

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35 Inspirational Quotes for Caregivers

Those who care for others are the backbone of a functioning society, and yet, sometimes they go unappreciated. For that reason, even the greatest caregivers need reminders that what they are doing is important, and their time spent giving is valued. These inspirational quotes for caregivers will help you remember your “why,” and send you on your way with a reinvigorated optimism. When you have peace and pride in your heart, you will be a light to others as well.

Throughout the ups and downs, there is hope to be found. Sometimes we just need a little reminder.

If that’s the case for you, you’re in luck. Here are 35 quotes all about the realities of being a caregiver that are sure to brighten your day:

Inspirational Quotes for Caregivers

Need something to lift your spirits on a difficult day or inspire you to be your best self? Look no further than these inspirational, motivational quotes!

“Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love – be there for others – bring a little light into someone’s day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest.” -Roy T. Bennett
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” -Dalai Lama
“Never believe that a few caring people can change the world. For indeed, that’s all who ever have.” -Margaret Mead
“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

Funny Caregiver Quotes

Caregiving can be stressful and tough. Sometimes, giving yourself the chance to have a laugh about your experiences is helpful. Other times, you may be in need of a serious pick-me-up.

These quotes are sure to boost your mood:

“My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.” -Ashleigh Brilliant
“Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!” -Billy Connolly
“By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” -Charles Wadsworth
“A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.” -Denis Waitley

Life as a Caregiver Quotes

Life as a caregiver can be challenging, but it can also be incredibly meaningful and empowering.

There’s a lot to be said about the ups and downs of caregiving, and these picks are a great start:

“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.” -Tia Walker
“Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief… When our role is to be providers of care, we should be there as equals.” -Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ” -Theodore Roosevelt
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” -E.E. Cummings
“My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.” -Nancy L. Kriseman, Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey

Caregiver Appreciation Quotes

Being a caregiver is no easy task. When someone decides to take on the challenging, but essential, role of being a caregiver, they certainly deserve appreciation. Include these quotes in a thoughtful card, a text message, or social media post. Any caregiver who reads it will feel suddenly lifted and seen.

Whether you’re looking to acknowledge a caregiver in your life or trying to reflect on the value of your own caregiving experiences, these quotes are perfect:

“Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible.” -Tia Walker
“One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value. ” -John Rohn
“Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectations, no strings attached.” -Gary Zukav
“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Making a difference for another today.” -Amy Leigh-Mercree
“It’s not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.” -Mother Theresa
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” -Henri Nouwen

Thank You Quotes for Caregivers

Trying to think of a way to thank a caregiver in your life for their hard work and commitment? Or, perhaps you’re a caregiver looking to express your gratitude for others in your life. Whatever the case may be, take a look at these for inspiration:

“Sometimes we need someone to simply be there. Not to fix anything, or to do anything in particular, but just to let us feel that we are cared for and supported.” -Anonymous
“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
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” -John F. Kennedy
“‘I wanted to thank you,’ I said. She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I’d said something funny. ‘Thank me for what?’ she said. ‘You give me strength I didn’t know I had,’ I said. ‘You make me better.’” -Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
“Practice to live a thank you and acknowledge your blessings. A new world will open up to you.” Anupama Garg, The Tantric Curse

Caregiver Burnout Quotes

Caregiver burnout (click here to read our guide on the topic) is a very real and challenging state to find yourself in.

It’s important to remember that it’s okay to take care of yourself too. Not only is it important to take care of yourself for your own personal and mental health, it’s also important when it comes to your ability to care for others.

These quotes are great reminders of not just how challenging burnout is, but also that it’s possible to overcome and learn from it:

“Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” -Eleanor Brown
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” -Mother Theresa
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm’s all about.” -Haruki Murkami, Kafka on the Shore
“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” -Andrew Matthews
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” -Brené Brown

Dementia Caregiver Quotes

Dementia is (unfortunately) becoming increasingly common. According to The World Health Organization, dementia currently impacts nearly 50 million people worldwide. There are also nearly 10 million new cases every year. Remember that even when someone you love does not remember your name, they still do not forget the way they feel about you, and they still feel the love that you have always shared.

Dementia can sometimes feel like a grief impossible to carry, both for the ill and for loved ones/family. These quotes reflect not just upon the challenges dementia present, but also the hope we must try and hold onto throughout:

“The journey of dementia is a journey like no other. Dementia makes you realize that there’s no time to waste. Each moment is precious, a treasure in its own way. We all know the last chapter in the book. Dementia taught me that all any of us really have is today.” -Leanne Chames
“Remind yourself every day: ‘I am in charge of my happiness. I will not let anything outside of myself control me. I am creating a life that feels good on the inside and it will turn into experiences that are good on the outside.” -Unknown
“It is a strange, sad irony that so often, in the territory of a disease that robs an individual of memory, caregivers are often the forgotten.” -Karen Walker
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Those with dementia are still people, and they still have stories, and they still have character, and they are all individuals, and they are all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.” -Carey Mulligan

Sources:

“Dementia,” World Health Organization, www. who.int

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30 Inspirational Quotes for Caregivers

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Use these caregiving quotes as tools for self-reflection and self-improvement. Whether you’re dealing with difficult siblings, caregiver guilt or anticipatory grief, a few words of wisdom can help you gain a new perspective, maintain a positive attitude, overcome challenges, beat caregiver burnout and empower you to help yourself as well as your loved ones.

If there’s a quote on this list that really resonates with you, jot it down and post it in a place where you’ll see it often. A powerful statement as a daily mantra can be a helpful tool to re-focus on wellness. Sometimes a daily reminder can inspire us to hold our heads high and face our challenges with strength and conviction.

“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.”
–Emory Austin

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”
–Herm Albright

“God gave burdens, but he also gave shoulders.”
–Yiddish Proverb

“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”
–Chinese Proverb

“Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.”
–Unknown

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”
–Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.”
–Amy Tan

“An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”
–G. K. Chesterton

“What happens to a person is less significant than what happens within him.”
–Louis L. Mann

“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
–Francesca Reigler

“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

“One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.”
–Jim Rohn

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude.”
–James Truslow Adams

“Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.”
–Robert H. Schuller

“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
–Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Impossible situations can become possible miracles.”
–Robert H. Schuller

“When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.”
–Unknown

“Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.”
–Les Brown

“Determination that just won’t quit—that’s what it takes. ”
–A. J. Foyt

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“About the only thing that comes without effort is old age.”
–Unknown

“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”
–Abigail Van Buren

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”
–Saint Thomas Aquinas

“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.”
–George E. Mueller

“Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.”
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Conceal a flaw and the world will imagine the worst.”
–Marcus Valerius Martialis

“Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process.”
–Rhonda Britten

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, un-forgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
–Glenn Clark

“We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. ”
–R. C. Allen

“Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.”
–Jack Buck

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About childhood

“It is a bad teacher of children who does not remember his childhood. ”

— Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach Austrian writer, playwright 1830 – 1916

About childhood

“The educator is not an official, and if he is an official, then he is not an educator.”

– Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky Russian teacher 1823 – 1870

“The team is the educator of the individual.”

– Anton Semyonovich Makarenko and Soviet pedagogue and writer 1888 – 1939

Personality

„… You can’t be a genius if you haven’t been born. This is the art of educators: to discover a genius, to enrich him with knowledge.”

— Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky Russian mathematician 1792 – 1856

On the arts

“The educator must have a good knowledge of the world, knowledge of the customs, manners, quirks, tricks and shortcomings of his time, especially the country in which he lives. He must be able to show them to his pupil … must teach him to understand people … to tear off the masks imposed on them by profession and pretense, to distinguish the real that lies deep under such an appearance . .. He must teach his pupil to compose for himself, as far as possible, the correct judgment of people on the basis of those signs that best show what they are in reality, and to penetrate with their eyes into their inner being, which is often found in trifles, especially when these people are not in a formal setting and not on the alert.

– John Locke British educator and philosopher 1632 – 1704

About men, About light, About appearance

“Youth is indomitable and needs many mentors, teachers, leaders, overseers, educators. Like an unbridled horse, like an indomitable beast, so is youth. Therefore, if at the beginning and from the first age we set appropriate limits for it, then later we will not need great efforts. On the contrary, later the habit will turn into a law for them.”

– John Chrysostom Archbishop of Constantinople, theologian 349 – 407

Conversation 9 (1 Tim. 2:11-15)

About law, about conditions, about teachers, about age

„Pain is the best, maybe the only educator. I don’t wish you pain. I hope my pain will bring you up.”

— Evgeny Mikhailovich Bogat Soviet journalist and writer 1923 – 1985

About pain

“An ethical educator is only a person who thinks ethically and fights for ethics.”

— Albert Schweitzer German theologian, philosopher, musician and physician 1875 – 1965

About men

“If you want to know how our future will be, don’t ask an engineer, programmer or physicist about it. Ask a kindergarten teacher. They are the ones who know how society will work in the next generation. Of course, many of us can imagine all sorts of cool things that will appear in the future. But for me, the future does not consist of objects.“

— Clifford Stoll 1950

About the future

“Education is what educators sometimes need the most.”

— Baurzhan Toyshibekov

child, then his main educators are mom and dad? No kindergarten, no loving and caring grandmother, no most attentive nanny in the world can replace them. Reading, arithmetic, geography and much more are the result of exclusively home education, many hours of study with the baby.“

— Viktor Stepanovich Biryukov Russian businessman and politician 1962

About family, about education, about light, about reading

there can be no educational process there.”

— Anton Semyonovich Makarenko Ukrainian and Soviet teacher and writer 1888 – 1939

“One must be born an educator and teacher; he is guided by natural tact.“

– Adolf Diesterweg German educator, liberal politician 1790 – 1866

About teachers

“The teacher himself must be what he wants to make the pupil.”

– Vladimir Ivanovich Dal Russian writer, ethnographer, linguist, lexicographer, doctor 1801 – 1872

„The soul of a child is a blank slate.
At first, the parents walked along it,
And then the educators watched…
Anguish not understood by adults,
Worn out by the norms of life,
Corrupted the boy into an old man.
And someone’s narrow-minded hand
Pharisees taught wisdom.
The child grew and his longing burned,
He broke the smelling branch with annoyance
And he kept threatening to bring the world to an answer
And he was looking for something primordial…”

— Ashot Sagratyan 1936 – 2015

About the world, about the soul, about parents

“The task of the educator and teacher remains to introduce every child to universal human development and make a person out of him before he is mastered by civil relations.”

— Adolf Diesterweg German educator, liberal politician 1790 – 1866

About men, About teachers

“The educator must behave in such a way that every movement educates him, and must always know what he wants at the moment and what he does not want. If the teacher does not know this, whom can he educate? ”

– Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin Russian writer and poet 1799 – 1837

“Our teacher is our reality.”

– Maxim Gorky 1868 – 1936

educators than parents, for they are ruthless. ”

– André Maurois French writer 1885 – 1967

About parents

“In education, the whole point is who the educator is.”

– Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev Russian publicist and literary critic, revolutionary democrat 1840 – 1868

“I would like the educator, from the very beginning, in accordance with the spiritual inclinations of the child entrusted to him, to give him the opportunity to freely manifest these inclinations, offering him to taste different things, choose between them and distinguish them independently, sometimes, on the contrary, allowing him to find the way to him. I do not want the mentor alone to decide everything and only one to speak; I want him to listen to his pet too.”

— Michel de Montaigne French writer and philosopher 1533 – 1592

“Man is born to work; labor is his earthly happiness, labor is the best custodian of human morality, and labor must be the educator of a person. ”

– Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky Russian teacher 1823 – 1870

us to an educator who vigilantly watched so that no harm would happen to us. We have grown up – and God has entrusted our innate conscience to protect us. Let us not treat this watchman with contempt, otherwise God will be angry with us, and our own conscience will see us as its enemies.”

— Epictetus the ancient Greek philosopher 50 – 138

About God, About parents

„…The educator himself must be educated.
Theses on Feuerbach (spring 1845).“

— Karl Marx German philosopher, sociologist, economist, writer, political journalist, public figure 1818 – 1883

Period up to 1849

I wanted the teacher to come up to me and ask: “Are you all right? You don’t have friends! Come on, I’ll introduce you to Chris and you’ll hang out?””

– Amy Lee American singer, songwriter, vocalist of the band Evanescence when a person has become an adult – prefects, kings, gold, estates, slaves – in essence, all this is the same, only the line is replaced by severe punishments. 354 – 430

About life, about men, about punishment, about teachers

“Corporal punishment, cruel reprimands, the manifestation of passions in the educator, the manifestation of his egoism have a deadly effect on the morality of pupils. The wrong view of a person saw in such treatment a necessary condition for subordination: experience shows quite the opposite. There is nothing more harmful to subordination and to the morality of a person in general than depriving him of the rights that belong to him, perhaps not clearly understood by him, but certainly felt in the spirit. A person whose rights are violated loses respect for the rights of others. A pupil, a child and a youth, has his own rights as a person and a citizen. It is necessary for him to be given a correct conception of these rights, to lead him into a correct knowledge of the rights that belong to his neighbors, to teach him the respect for rights. In order for him to respect the rights of others, his rights must be respected. How should civil society be recognized as truly free? The one to which all the rights that can only be used by human society on earth are delivered, harmless to themselves, whose members have received a correct understanding of their rights and sacredly guard these rights in all their mutual relations. Such a state cannot be achieved by society except by the correct upbringing of youth in moral terms. A young man brought up in this direction will become the best subordinate: understanding and respecting the rights of civil society, including his own, he will understand and respect the rights of his boss, he will inviolably keep them, carry out his orders equally before his eyes and outside him. eyes. This way of education forms noble characters, with sincerity and directness, not capable of flattery. The educator has the necessary need to learn to distinguish between a sincere and direct word from a bold word, to distinguish between respect and courtesy from flattery, which is necessarily combined with malice.0007

— Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, theologian, scientist and preacher 1807 – 1867

About men, about punishment, about education, about knowledge pupil, the respect that he should have for himself as a person, as the image of God will be trampled into the dirt, then the sense of honor is destroyed in the pupil. Here it is not about vanity and love for honors, but about the consciousness and feeling of one’s purpose and dignity, one’s rights. With the loss of a sense of honor, with the loss of consciousness of one’s rights in a young person, the consciousness of the rights of all mankind is destroyed. Conscientiousness, good intentions, striving for the public good are replaced by humiliating, petty egoism. Subordination is replaced by one man-pleasing, so condemned in the Holy Scriptures, consisting in pleasing the passions of the boss with complete contempt for him, for all his plans, orders and orders.0007

— Ignatius (Bryanchaninov) Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, theologian, scientist and preacher 1807 – 1867

About men, about education, about feelings, about passion where there are ups and downs. We have collected 20 parenting quotes for you so you can make sure you are doing everything right, get advice in difficult times and just have fun.

20 funny and inspiring quotes about parenthood

Raising a child is an endless journey with ups and downs. We have collected 20 parenting quotes for you so you can make sure you are doing everything right, get advice in difficult times and just have fun.

American doctor and psychologist Dale Archer shares his views on the need for parenting education in school:

“We teach those who want to drive a car more carefully than those who want to be parents. I think high school should teach parenting the same way they teach math. Because being a parent is difficult, to become a good father or mother, it is not enough just to conceive and give birth.

The great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, the father of five children, expresses the same point of view:

« The art of education has the peculiarity that it seems familiar and understandable to almost everyone, and even easy to others, and all the more understandable and easier it seems, the less a person is familiar with it theoretically or practically.

Actress Roseanne Barr jokingly objected to men:

“If the children are still alive when my husband returns from work, I did my job right. ”

Neil deGrasse Tyson points out the obvious contradictions of traditional parenting:

“The first year of a child’s life we teach him to walk, talk, and the rest of his life to be silent and sit. There seems to be something wrong here.”

How can one not remember the famous “mom” phrases: “Shut your mouth and eat” or “If you break your leg, I’ll arrange for you.” The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau also speaks in defense of children’s pranks:

“You will never succeed in creating wise men if you kill naughty children.”

Louis Hart, author of a book on positive parenting, considers the old biblical wisdom as the main principle of parenting:

“Remember how you would like your parents to treat you, and treat your children the same way.”

But the ancient philosopher Petronius adhered to a different style of upbringing:

“Parents who do not want to bring up their children in strict rules are worthy of reproach. ”

Hegel was the same severe teacher:

“If children are allowed to do whatever they please, and beyond that, to be foolish enough to give them reasons for their whims, then we will have to deal with the worst way of education, children then develop a regrettable habit of special unrestraint, to a kind of philosophizing, to selfish interest – the root of all evil.

Somewhere in the middle between these points of view is the educational maxim of the Soviet teacher Makarenko. By the way, of the two thousand disadvantaged children whom he re-educated, not one returned to the path of crime.

“Parental help should not be intrusive, annoying, tiring. In some cases, it is absolutely necessary to let the child get out of the difficulty on his own, it is necessary that he gets used to overcoming obstacles and resolving more complex issues. But you must always see how the child performs this operation, you must not allow him to get confused and despair. Sometimes you even need the child to see your alertness, attention and trust in his strength.

The great educator Janusz Korczak points out the need to respect the will and freedom of the child:

“Everything that is achieved by training, pressure, violence is fragile, unreliable and unreliable.”

Writer Jennifer Boylan shares the struggles of raising teenagers:

“The most ironic thing about raising a teenager is that right when you have all the information they need, you are the last person they will listen to.”

A German proverb says that teenagers are unbearable:

“Mother nature gives us twelve years to love our children before they become teenagers.”

But Mark Twain consoles his parents by sharing his own experience:

“When I was fourteen, my father was so stupid that I could hardly bear him; but when I was twenty-one years old, I was amazed at how much this old man had grown wiser in the last seven years.

The great Russian critic Belinsky advises parents to pay attention to themselves:

“There is nothing more useless and even more harmful than instructions, even the best ones, if they are not supported by examples, are not justified in the eyes of the student by the totality of the reality surrounding him.”

The writer and ethnographer VI Dal agrees with him:

“The teacher himself must be what he wants to make the pupil.”

The aforementioned classic of pedagogical thought Makarenko was of the same opinion:

“Only a living example educates a child, not words, even the best ones, but not supported by deeds.”

The parents themselves, however, are more fond of joking about their hard lot. Comedian Jim Gaffigan shares the struggles of parenting:

“I don’t know what exhausts me more about parenting: lack of sleep or having to pretend I know what I’m doing.”

Another comedian Ray Romano agrees:

“If you sleep like a baby, you definitely don’t have one. ”

And Russian stand-up artist Nurlan Saburov is not far behind his foreign colleagues:

“It’s very easy to love a child, it’s very hard to endure a child”.

In general, the opinion of the popes is understandable. What about moms? Astrid Lindgren, a children’s writer whose books have educated generations of children, shares proven wisdom:

“Leave the kids alone, but be within reach in case you need them.”

Another children’s writer who made most of us choose between Hogwarts houses states that:

“You may not know anything about parenthood, love will show you the way, and respect for the personality of the child will keep you from making mistakes.”

Let’s end our collection with a wise and inspiring quote from Wayne Dyer, father of eight children, writer and educator.

“Be prepared to honestly tell your children, ‘I don’t know.’ If you are honest and open, they will be honest and open with you.