Top 288 Patient Quotes

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient’s renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.
Joseph Murray
I’m patient.
Michael Jordan
As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that as a physician I am capable of forcing someone to change their behavior, no matter how detrimental to their health.
Drew Pinsky
I don’t think patient would be the first word that anybody that knows me would describe me as. But I think that’s anybody in competitive sports.
Brad Stevens
It's not all fine and dandy, but a smile can go a long

It’s not all fine and dandy, but a smile can go a long way. Show some love, be patient, and this world will be a much better place.
Jimmy Butler
I’m very dogged and patient.
Doug Stanton
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
Florence Nightingale
I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I’m a killer.
Jack Kevorkian
Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications.
Frans van Houten
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
At the WTO, it’s never a general surgery. It’s always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery – and you can’t miss the target. If you miss the target, you kill the patient. It’s as simple as that.
Roberto Azevedo
I tried doing yoga to see if it would make me a more patient person, but I lost interest after about six minutes.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Gertrude Stein
If I’m at the front line and refuse to treat a patient, it’s considered a crime. As a physician, this is my oath. I’m going to treat everyone regardless.
Joanne Liu
I have spent a very long time in Cate’s shadow – she casts a pretty big one. I have always had the support of my family and coach, and they have always stressed we are completely different people and will achieve things in our own time. They stressed I would get my moment. I just had to be patient.
Bronte Campbell
Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy… So sue me!
Carnie Wilson
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler
A lot of people body shame me because I am very thin. They say I have a ‘boy’s body,’ or that I look like a skeleton or like a runaway patient. People can never be happy, so you just have to be happy with your body and how you are.
Ananya Panday
My father’s favorite poem was probably ‘Love is patient, love is kind.’ It’s simply stated but pretty profound. That’s how my dad wrote.
John Carter Cash
I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.
Charles Jencks
I am a retired United States Marine Corporal and I started out in 2nd Battalion Night Marines on my deployment and I finished my career in the Marine Corps at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as a patient.
Kyle Carpenter
Obamacare is, ‘Patient, heal yourself.’
John Barrasso
Things never change in football, it’s still blocking and tackling and execution, and having an experienced quarterback who is patient enough to take what the defense gives him.
George Blanda
I can’t speak on anybody else’s free agencies, how that’s going, but for myself, it helps to kind of be patient and let it happen.
Mookie Betts
People who might normally have to travel hours to a distant city to see a cardiologist can now do so virtually, through Cisco technology, at their local hospital or health clinic. Clinicians use technology to share patient reports and diagnostic images and collaborate on cases.
John T. Chambers
We can no longer remain within our exam rooms and ignore what happens in our communities. As physicians and dentists, we must have a presence in both places. Our sacred responsibility is both to help the patient in front of us and also to safeguard the health of the nation.
Vivek Murthy
I’m doing my best to be mindful about how I’m living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.
Deirdre O’Kane
Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let’s talk about the patient. The patient doesn’t need a war.
Donald Berwick
Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon.
Elvis Mitchell
I’m not a patient person.
Thomas Tuchel
I remain patient because my mom taught me growing up to be grateful for everything.
Zion Williamson
People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.
Ernie Banks
I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with a lot of laughter, plus photos and a quilt from home, and next door was another patient who was alone every time I came by – I’m going to be very nervous about the isolated patient’s mental status.
Allan Hamilton
I am an attacking batsman, but I’ve learned a lot about patience. There are clever bowlers who can pick your weak points, so I have to be a bit patient, play out a spell or two.
Prithvi Shaw
The U.K. and Europe in general seem to be a lot more pa

The U.K. and Europe in general seem to be a lot more patient. The U.S. are expecting ‘joke joke joke joke joke joke joke.’ They don’t actually sit and listen to you.
Bo Burnham
When you’re actually boxing, unless it’s a proper grudge match, it’s less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it’s as much down to you as what the other person does – and that’s life.
Dizzee Rascal
Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you’re called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.
David Rakoff
Imagine someone who has had a heart attack on the street, and they are picked up by an ambulance with 5G connectivity, hi-definition scanners, and cameras… You start taking a scan in the ambulance so all of that data is transferred to the surgery before the patient arrives, and a diagnosis is already underway.
Rajeev Suri
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
I have been lucky enough to inherit the patient, loving and nurturing side from my mother, and the organizational and productive side from my dad.
Karch Kiraly
I was a hard person to deal with as a patient.
Paul Nassif
It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.
Harry Houdini
Genomics, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Machine learning technologies are helping practitioners deliver better diagnosis and actually freeing up time for patient interaction.
Frans van Houten
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
Frances Farmer
I’m just trying to go out each week and get better. I just have to be patient, and it’s going to happen.
Ezekiel Elliott
Being patient is one of the big things I’ve focused on.
Donovan Mitchell
I’ve never been a good patient. I’m not good with pain. It is not for me.
Angie Harmon
When I defend, it keeps me patient and lets my game come to me on the offensive end.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
When my job isn’t performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I’m hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I’m a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.
John Cena
Although not yet routine, many cancer centers have the technology to sequence some or all of a patient’s cancer genome. This can provide massive amounts of valuable information about your cancer, including whether you have genetic mutations and other abnormalities for which new drugs are available.
Kathy Giusti
In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
Jerry Kramer
I had my nose done four times. I’ve had a little bit of filler before, a little bit of Botox before. So I have been a patient, not in my own hands, obviously.
Paul Nassif
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
Tom Brown, Jr.
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
To put up with me, you have to be patient.
Greg Rutherford
It took me a long time to be able to say I was a cancer patient. Then, for a long time, I was only that: A cancer patient.
Suleika Jaouad