Patient Quotes

• I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Me
  • Year
  • Lord

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Power
  • Year

• Our duty is to be patient.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Duty
  • Patient
  • Be Patient

• Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Worry
  • Patient
  • Physicians

• The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.

  

  Paul Kalanithi
  • Existence
  • Duty
  • Physician

• Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Patience
  • Solace

• A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Die
  • Patient
  • Doctor

• "Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Men
  • Failing
  • Persistence

• Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Research
  • Appreciation
  • Patient

• I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Information
  • Protected
  • Transparent

• Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

  

  Lara St. John
  • First
  • Curiosity
  • Patient

• Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Brain
  • Tests
  • Observe

• The patient decides when it's best to go.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Best
  • Patient
  • Medical

• I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Always
  • Patient
  • Out

• Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Patient

• In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.

  

  Hans Fischer
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Minor

• From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • True
  • Madness
  • Pseudo

• Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Patient
  • Doctors
  • Quack

• Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • May
  • Make
  • Envy

• Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

  

  William Osler
  • Suffering
  • Lessons
  • Malady

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Baby
  • Become
  • Patient

• Keep your head up and be patient.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Head
  • Be Patient

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