Top 100 Patient Quotes
#1. I've learned to be patient. When I was younger I rushed things a lot. I tried to attack the game. Now I get teammates more involved before I try to take over.
Steve McNair
#2. I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.
Jack Kirby
#3. Maniacal suicide. - This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.
Emile Durkheim
#4. In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
Hans Fischer
#5. I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller
#7. The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
Homer
#8. Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids.
Matt Damon
#9. I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.
Pansy Ho
#10. And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
Bainbridge Colby
#11. In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
Jerry Kramer
#12. In life, you must be friendly, generous and patient. Only by giving unconditionally, by always seeking to understand, and by loving genuinely can you be sure that others will consider doing the same for you.
Avram E. Cosmin
#13. Natural healing has the power to cure pancreatic cancer. But usually, before I see the patient, medical treatments - not the disease - have destroyed the patient's body.
Richard M. Schulze
#14. I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
Elizabeth Montagu
#15. I loved the study of psychology. I didn't love seeing patient after patient. I was perpetually overstimulated, busy decoding everything I took in.
Laurie Helgoe
#16. A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.
C.S. Lewis
#17. The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.
John Dryden
#19. Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.
Herbert Hoover
#20. So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?'
Rajneesh
#21. A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can.
Ann Coulter
#22. Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.
Alice Dreger
#23. Ghosts are waiting in the shadows of the room, patient dull shimmers. The others can see them, too, I know it. We're all afraid to talk about what stares at us from the dark.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#24. In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way.
Jaromir Jagr
#25. It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.
James Russell Lowell
#26. Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
Elbert Hubbard
#27. I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library, and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.
Michael Sims
#28. Everyone's a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
Hamza Yusuf
#29. Before asserting a prognosis on any patient, always be objective and never subjective. For telling a man that he will win the treasure of life, but then later discovering that he will lose, will harm him more than by telling him that he may lose, but then he wins.
Suzy Kassem
#30. As for Porthos, I believe him to be eternal, like God, although less patient.
Alexandre Dumas
#31. When you have a paper based system, you are relying on your memory to a large extent about the patient. Now the paper records can have various kinds of ticklers.
William Davis
#33. Never judge badly a rage of a very patient heart who had let go many repetitive offenses from insufferable bastards.
Angelica Hopes
#34. Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#35. But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better.
Daniela Hantuchova
#36. But now, he was conscious of his own impatience with what he had begun to see as the sinister pedantry of therapy, its suggestion that life was somehow reparable, that there existed a societal norm and that the patient was being guided toward conforming to it.
Hanya Yanagihara
#37. The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.
Gabirol
#38. The only path to finding out what life is about is a patient, slow attempt to make sense of the realities of the past and the possibilities of the future as they can be understood in the present.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#39. We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world
Helen Keller
#40. On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: He taught the love of truth.
David McCullough
#41. Even stupid people have a role to play
in your life. They make you wiser and
more patient.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#42. My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
Pat Gillick
#43. If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
A.A. Milne
#44. When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.
Karl Abraham
#45. The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.
Richard Selzer
#47. Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The patient is part of the surgical team here, perhaps the most important part, and above all, that's what makes neurosurgery different.
Sam Kean
#48. If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.
Michael East
#49. My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
Jack Kevorkian
#50. Accidentally cut a few strips outta his patient's brain. Interested in what would happen if he stitched them back in the wrong place. Patient woke up thinking he was a panda ice cream spatula.
Bradley Sands
#51. You have to learn to be patient and not give up. Look to your parents; they need to be there for you. But having spiritual faith will get you through anything.
Sheila Johnson
#52. What my friends didn't know about me and I didn't know about Amma is that people who are hurting don't need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witnesses. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpless vigil to our pain.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#54. If a 6 foot tall talking Badger comes to your door with a great deal on health insurance, be certain to ask if it includes in-patient psychiatric care.
David C. Holley
#55. History will show that patient boys with a sense of humor, who can dance, tend to have more opportunities to participate in the evolution of the species than boys who give up and mope quietly on the sidelines
Andrew Smith
#56. I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well.
John Green
#57. Dogs are loyal, patient, fearless, forgiving, and capable of pure love. Virtues that few people get through life without abandoning, at least once.
M.K. Clinton
#58. There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.
Allan Hamilton
#59. But now you have another problem. Keeping him from exploding like a live granade and blitzing all of us." He started walking down the hall. "I've already had a little taste of that and I'm not willing to stand for it again. I'm patient, I'm not a martyr. Fix it Eve.
Iris Johansen
#60. Just as the desperate, terminally ill cancer patient often turns to expensive placebos for an imaginary chance at more life, the desperate, terminally alive sad people turn to expensive placebos for a chance to imagine a decent life.
Sarah Perry
#61. God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure!
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
#62. Love is patient, love is kind, love means slowly losing your mind.
James Marsden
#63. Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
Gail Sheehy
#64. Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.
Carlos Slim
#65. Be patient, but persist with a well balanced patience and impatience! Take it step by step and keep it cool to the end!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#66. Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.
John Doolittle
#67. Why is it so? If live is a gift, all that belongs to and is intrinsic to life is going to be a gift. You can wait for it, you can be receptive to it, you can remain in a surrendered mood, waiting, patient, but you cannot demand, and you cannot force.
Rajneesh
#68. I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.
Ayelet Waldman
#69. All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them.
David Archuleta
#70. Sometimes what we see as a loss turns out in the end to be a gain, and sometimes a gain is a loss. I try not to be too swift to pass judgment on any situation, preferring instead to be patient and take the long view because I believe that in the end all things work together for good.
Louis Zamperini
#71. Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.
Timothy Murphy
#72. Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.
Mike Huckabee
#73. Personalized medicine is an art that advocates for the patient, not the pocket or convenience of the medical system.
Melissa Cady
#74. We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different world, and then we'll build ...
Philip Pullman
#75. A careful physician ... before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#76. Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
George Bernard Shaw
#78. Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
O. Henry
#79. Don't try to manufacture your own miracles. Don't try to answer your own prayers. Don't try to do God's job for Him. Stay humble. Stay patient. Stay focused. Keep circling.
Mark Batterson
#81. My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.
John Slattery
#82. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
Patrick Rothfuss
#83. We can change our rewards. It just takes a shift in out thought patterns and being gentle and patient with ourselves.
Damon Gameau
#84. A shrink and a patient in a love-hate relationship. Who is REALLY the boss?
Mary Papas
#85. It takes an average of three hours after the first symptoms of a heart attack are recognized by the patient, before that patient arrives at an emergency room. Symptoms are often denied by the patient - particularly us men, because we are very brave.
Robert Fischell
#86. To the world, it doesn't matter that much. Until you remember that it means the world to the patient. One exact world, bright and full of sounds, per person. That is what is lost.
James Maskalyk
#87. Be completely humble, gentle, patient and bearing with one another in love.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#88. Wrapped beneath the shadow of Lucifer's fallen wings, it's even easy to squeeze the trigger, snuffing out one more monster's life. But there are plenty more awaiting their turn, and with hell at my back... They only need to be patient.
Lana Sky
#89. Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when the maternal lap of everlasting Love shall be opened to us, and the full peace of God breathe around us from the palmy summits of Eden.
Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher
#90. Psychotherapy would not only reflect a nihilistic philosophy but also, even though unwillingly and unwittingly, transmit to the patient what is actually a caricature rather than a true picture of man. First
Viktor E. Frankl
#91. This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.
Amy Dickinson
#92. I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.
Walt Disney
#93. I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid.
Kim Alexis
#94. My darling, patient friends tell me that I'm still single only because I'm picky, and because I haven't met the right person yet. This would feel truer if I hadn't been shut down by quite so many wrong people that I, despite my allegedly high standards, chased after.
Katie Heaney
#95. Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
Beatrice Webb
#96. If you can continue to smile through hardship and pain, then your moment will come ... just be patient.
Charles F. Glassman
#97. It's to your best interest to be patient with your REAL self as you nurture it back into existence." ~ Linda Deir
Linda Deir
#99. Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.
Sean Moran
#100. The best colleague any doctor can have is a more fully informed patient and family.
James J. Rybacki
