Fred Hollows Quotes

• Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.

  Fred Hollows

  Kings, Eye, Medicine

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• To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.

  Fred Hollows

  Concern For Others, Mind, Quality

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• I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other

  Fred Hollows

  Believe, People, Community

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• When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

  Fred Hollows

  Leadership, Opportunity, Community

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• You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.

  Fred Hollows

  Cowardice, Disappoint, Turns

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• I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

  Fred Hollows

  Wisdom, Done, Alive

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• I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

  Fred Hollows

  Helping Others, Medicine, Satisfaction

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• Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.

  Fred Hollows

  Years, Two, People

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• The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

  Fred Hollows

  Leadership, Community, Suffering

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