Best Patient Lines
1694 Patient quotes by 1129 unique authors
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A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.
— Bud Grant
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Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming…
— Deacon Jones
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Cancer is such a frightening and emotional roller coaster. It's a ride we all want to get off! My best advice is, find the 'glue'…
— Unknown Author
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For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to…
— Larry Lucchino
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to…
— Susan Sontag
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I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful. She enjoyed having…
— Jane Goodall
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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want…
— Natalie Goldberg
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What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis.…
— Alan Cohen
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We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the…
— Vincent Nichols
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The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in…
— Henry Parry Liddon
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The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen…
— Tony Blair
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The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the…
— Richard Owen
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Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many…
— Thomas a Kempis
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I begin each day with holy Mass, receiving Jesus hidden under the appearance of a simple piece of bread. Then I go out into the…
— Mother Teresa
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For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the…
— Pope John Paul II
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Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though…
— John F. Kennedy
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Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All…
— Og Mandino
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are…
— John Berger
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We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying…
— Thomas Szasz
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Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not…
— Maya Angelou
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The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters…
— Florence Nightingale
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I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the…
— Florence Nightingale
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Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally…
— Richard Asher
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Because the biological mechanisms that affect our health and well-being are so dynamic, when people change their diet and lifestyle, they usually feel so much…
— Dean Ornish
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