Here are some quotes that encapsulate the qualities of a person who is helpful, compassionate, kind, nurturing, sympathetic, courageous, and always conscious of others:
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
~ Nelson Mandela
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
~ Anne Frank
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
~ Pema Chödrön
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
~ Mark Twain
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“To care for another person, especially in the face of adversity, is to honor and respect the inherent worth of that person.”
~ Dalai Lama
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
~ C.S. Lewis
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
~ Nelson Henderson
Hillbetty version: “Plant a tree for the young ones to sit under after you’re gone.”
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes, you gotta toughen up and stand your ground!“
~ Hillbetty
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
~ Maya Angelou
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
~ Maya Angelou
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
~ Alice Walker
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
~ Maya Angelou
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
~ Audre Lorde
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
~ Audre Lorde