Compassion Quotes

"How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they’re giving you an enema."

- Warren Beatty

"You can tell when a patient is feeling better when she starts to wear makeup."

- Jen O’Keefe

"The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable."

- Jodi Picoult

"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

"I did not think of going to give myself a position, but for the sake of common humanity."

- Florence Nightingale

"Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the infant, the knowledge and confidence of the young mother, and a voice for those too weak to speak."

- Virginia Henderson

"We are each made for goodness, love, and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths."

- Desmond Tutu

"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 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

"Being a nurse means to hold all your own tears and start drawing smiles on people’s faces."

- Dana Basem

"Wednesday is a day to help others celebrate life. You and only you are accountable for what you extend and give to others. One smile not only increases your value but it gives joy to each person you meet."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Wednesday is a day to help others celebrate life. You and only you are accountable for what you extend and give to others."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Sometimes even grown women need their mother’s comfort so we can just take a break from having to be strong all the time."

- Colleen Hoover

"To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is."

- Fred Rogers

"Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate."

- Charlotte Gray

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

- Samuel Johnson

"Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers."

- Kahlil Gibran

"There is a spiritual aspect to our lives — when we give, we receive — when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!"

- Ben Cohen

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

"Be nice to your nurse. They dispense happy pills"

"It’s really nice when patients call me nurse, instead of, “hey”!"

"Sometimes I inspire my patients; more often they inspire me."

- Unknown

"Be ye kind to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32.(KJV)"

"A mother is the truest friend we have. When trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."

- Anonymous

"Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing that you were the prisoner."

- Unknown

"Resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."

- Unknown

"There are two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."

- Unknown

"Treat others the way you want to be treated."

- Unknown

"Don’t treat others the way you want to be treated. Treat them the way they want to be treated."

- Unknown