Best Patient Quotations
1694 Patient quotes by 1129 unique authors
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb…
— Michel de Montaigne
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On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have…
— John Ruskin
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We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what…
— Hippocrates
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My opinion is, that more harm than good is done by physicians; and I am convinced, that, had I left my patients to nature, instead…
— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
— John Dryden
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Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
— Dario Fo
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I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most…
— Bernard Arnault
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This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill…
— Margaret Mead
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Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.
— Florence Nightingale
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Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.
— Albert Schweitzer
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There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.
— William Shakespeare
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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental…
— Ivan Pavlov
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He's been a top player for the last 10 years, and we all work on our swings, we all change things. We keep working and…
— Ernie Els
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The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever…
— Unknown Author
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The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.
— Richard Selzer
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I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my…
— Ernest Van den Haag
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A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.
— Carl Pfeiffer
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You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.
— Elisabeth Rohm
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Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.
— Unknown Author
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