Medical Quotes

In terms of human ingenuity and initiative, it also turns out that the heart is not only open to new possibilities, it actively scans for them, ever seeking new, intuitive understanding of what matters most to you in your life or work.
Robert K. Cooper, The Other 90%; How To Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential For Leadership and Life

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
G.K. Chesterton

The greatest wealth is health.
Virgil

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
Larry Dossey

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure , putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
Lewis Thomas

If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Leon Eldred

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
Lord Chesterfield

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
Robert Ingersoll

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
Elbert Hubbard

Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

We often think of nursing as giving meds on time, checking an X-ray to see if the doctor needs to be called, or taking an admission at 2:00 a.m. with a smile on our faces. Too often, we forget all the other things that make our job what it truly is: caring and having a desire to make a difference.
Erin Petengill

Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.
Author Unknown

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
Dag Hammarskjold

Nurses are the heart of healthcare.
Donna Wilk Cardillo

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Florence Nightingale

Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the joy, everyday, while we are "just doing our jobs."
Christine Belle

LPN: means Loving Person Near
Author Unknown

Caring is the essence of nursing.
Jean Watson

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest....
William Osler

RN: means Real Nice!
Author Unknown

The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
Randy Castillo

If love can’t cure it, nurses can.
Author Unknown

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
Elizabeth Kenny

A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.
Carrie Latet