Compassion Quotes

"Kindness is one thing you can’t give away. It always comes back."

- George Skolsky

"May your words be filled with kindness, for they have the power to heal and uplift."

- Megan Madonna

"A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope."

- Carrie Latet

"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either."

- Golda Meir

"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."

- Yoko Ono

"Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break, and all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intentions. So go, Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world awaits in darkness for the light that is you."

- L.R. Frost

"Nurses are a unique kind. They have this insatiable need to care for others, which is both their greatest strength and fatal flaw."

- Jean Watson

"Caring is the essence of nursing."

- Jean Watson

"Every nurse was drawn to nursing because of a desire to care, to serve, or to help."

- Christina Feist-Heilmeier, RN

"Nurses are there when the last breath is taken, and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death."

- Christine Bell

"You treat a disease: you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you win—no matter the outcome."

- Robin Williams in Patch Adams

"Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the job, every day, while we are ‘just doing our jobs.’"

- Christine Belle

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Nurses—one of the few blessings of being ill."

- Sara Moss-Wolfe

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle."

- Plato

"Nurses are the heart of healthcare."

- Donna Wilk Cardillo, MA, RN, CSP

"As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the mind, soul, heart, and body of our patients. They may forget your name, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts."

- Charles Dickens

"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 accomplishment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

- Leo Buscaglia

"A caress, a smile, is full of meaning for one who is sick. It is a simple gesture, but encouraging, he or she feels accompanied, feels closer to being healed, feels like a person, not a number."

- Pope Francis

"Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital."

- Carrie Latet

"You can’t expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them."

"Save one life, you’re a hero. Save 100 lives, you’re a nurse."

- Unknown

"A nurse is one who opens the eyes of a newborn and gently closes the eyes of a dying man. It is indeed a high blessing to be the first and last to witness the beginning and end of life."

- Unknown

"Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription."

"Not all angels have wings…some have scrubs."

- Unknown

"Be the nurse you would want as a patient."

"Treat the patient as a whole, not just the hole in the patient."

- Unknown

"The definition of a nurse: To go above and beyond the call of duty. The first to work and the last to leave. The heart and soul of caring. who will pass through your life for a minute and impact it for an eternity. An empowered individual whom you may meet for only a 12-hour period, but who will put you and yours above theirs."