Patient Quotes - Page 2

• The patient must minister to himself

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Ministers, Antidote

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, May, Pay

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 06, 2015

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• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Patience, Perseverance, Powerful

  In Observer 4 Apr. 1989

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• In people's minds, I'm a comic, so it took a lot of time before I was recognized as a director. I had to be patient until the public accepted me. As a result, my early films didn't get a lot of attention. As a serious film actor, things didn't take off, either. Only my comic talents were recognized.

  Takeshi Kitano

  People, Mind, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Keep your head up and be patient.

  A. J. McLean

  Be Patient, Heads Up

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• If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

  Isaac Newton

  Patience, Science, Thinking

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• All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full. They’re too interested in themselves to think about what’s fair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Patience, Eye

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• The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.

  Samuel James Meltzer

  Get Well, Medicine, Doe

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• There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

  Oliver Sacks

  Doctors, Stupidity, Presumption

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

  Oliver Sacks

  Firsts, Sickness

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Song, Stars, Waiting

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “Many Waters”, p.289, Macmillan

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• Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Expectations

  Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Hate, War, Grief

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• He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

  Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874). “The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day”, p.107

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• Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

  George Saunders

  Medicine, Confusion, Advice

  George Saunders’ Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.

  Shane Warne

  Opportunity, Worry, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

  Florence Nightingale

  Coffee, Science, Sick

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not”, p.76

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• And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a while, probably. But I'm a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination - nothing.

  George W. Bush

  Determination, War, Men

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• I want to feel better. My wife says she likes me not drinking, not so many highs, so many lows, I don't lose temper, I'm more patient.

  Mike Bryan

  Drinking, Feel Better, Wife

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• The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.

  Emil Kraepelin

  Cutting, Bipolar, Trying

  Emil Kraepelin (2002). “Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia”, Thoemmes Pr

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• God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Patience, Uptight, Teach

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia Ruehlmann (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.222, Revell

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• Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Patience, Knowledge, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jul 27, 2011

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• She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

  Mavis Gallant

  Girl, Patience, Dream

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.200, New York Review of Books

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• We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Patience, Discipline, People

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• The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as a patient one for Halloween.

  Shannon Hale

  Patience, Halloween, Dressing Up

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Midnight in Austenland: A Novel”, p.103, A&C Black

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