Patient Quotes

Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment.

I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Drugs don't work in patients who don't take them.

Thank you Lord, for being patient with me. For its so hard to see, when my eyes are on me.

Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

He (Shaithan) is extremely patient. He won't get you in one shot. He'll come at you and he'll put a little bit and a little bit and a little bit until he destroys your character.

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

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

Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.

Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up.

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

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 be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

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

We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.

For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.

You just stay patient, that's all.

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4)

A good Muslim is not one who is strictest in his judgment, but who is most patient in listening.

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.

The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.

Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active!

Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

I am patient and loving with my fearful thoughts. Be patient and loving with every fearful thought. Practice observing your fears as a witness, and you'll see them dissolve.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.