Patient Quotes
1694 Patient quotes by 1129 unique authors
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
— Bertrand Russell
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it's on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into a pharmacy, someone…
— Unknown Author
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We have to be very careful not to blame the patients. A lot of the conversation [around patient engagement] has been, how do we get…
— Unknown Author
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The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and…
— Richard Doll
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress…
— John Climacus
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Marijuana is beneficial to many patients
— Joycelyn Elders
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in…
— John Lancaster Spalding
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It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as…
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be…
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they…
— Booker T. Washington
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The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting…
— Victor Cherbuliez
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When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to…
— Ole Hallesby
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"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness…
— William Osler
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We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent.…
— Jeff Bezos
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets…
— William James
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A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients…
— Dave deBronkart
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Our nation is somewhat sad, but we're angry. There's a certain level of blood lust, but we won't let it drive our reaction. We're steady,…
— George W. Bush
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Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is…
— Bo Jackson
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own,…
— Thomas a Kempis
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You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight, be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come.
— Leon Brown
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