Patient Quotes

• Being patient even in the thickest of storms can be the one device that may catapult you over any obstacle.

  

  Noelle Scaggs
  • Patient
  • Obstacle
  • Storms

• The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I'll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn't that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Life
  • Spirit
  • Bible

• One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • History
  • Attention

• To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Giving
  • Anticipate
  • Gamble

• The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

  

  William Stewart Halsted
  • Surgeon
  • Retaliate
  • Hemorrhage

• Be patient? That's all you've got for me?" Steve complained ten minutes later. Kylie glanced up at Perry, circling them as they sat behind the office, and then frowned at Steve. "I don't know why everyone thinks I'm the love guru.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Health
  • Living
  • Doctors

• The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.

  

  Kate Simon
  • Way
  • Rich
  • Patient

• The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Argument
  • Bigotry
  • Orthodox

• Big, obedient, patient Clydesdales. I loved them.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Patient
  • Obedient
  • Clydesdales

• I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Point

• When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Idea
  • Patient
  • Relaxed

• A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • Science
  • Chance
  • Benefiting

• “Autonomy is absolutized in principle and practice. This may lead to the second response, namely, that physicians will accede to whatever the patient or valid surrogate wants. This prompts the physician to transfer all responsibility to patients, family, or friends. This occurs with alarming frequency in the care of infants, the elderly, and demented patients who may be over- or under-treated because their surrogates demand it. Indeed,”

  

  Edmund Pellegrino
  • Practice
  • Patient
  • Autonomy

• The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.

  

  Karin Lowachee
  • Breathe
  • Replaced
  • Heaviness

• He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Waiting
  • Mercy
  • Denial

• The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Mean
  • Secret
  • Criticism

• I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Audience
  • Freak
  • Confusing

• To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power.

  

  F. Enzio Busche
  • God
  • Charity
  • Humble

• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Physician

• If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Courage
  • Afraid
  • Ride

• There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Looks
  • Aspect

• An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Persons
  • Patient
  • Impatient

• It took long and patient work to put it into the head of the public that General Jackson was a great man and that he brought honor to America.

  

  Jared Sparks
  • Work
  • Public
  • General Jackson

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