“Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.”
William Osler
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Health Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HEALTH
Health Quotes
Read the best health quotes on wellness, healing and healthy living from Hippocrates, Charaka, Thiruvalluvar, Gandhi, William Osler and more. Words to inspire a healthier life.
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”
William Osler
MedicineEducation
“It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.”
Florence Nightingale
NursingPatient Care
“The dose makes the poison.”
Paracelsus
ModerationMedicine
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
Thomas Edison
PreventionFuture
“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.”
Arabian Proverb
HopeWellbeing
“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
Francis Bacon
TreatmentWisdom
“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”
Thomas Fuller
GratitudeHealth
“Health is not everything, but without health everything is nothing.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
PrioritiesWellbeing
“Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body.”
Henry David Thoreau
BodySelf Care
“Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved, or not at all.”
William Shakespeare
TreatmentLiterature
“Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.”
Robert Burton
HopePatience
“Diseases are the interests of pleasures.”
George Herbert
HabitsConsequences
“Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.”
Benjamin Franklin
WorryBalance
“To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues.”
Samuel Johnson
DutyWellbeing
“Temperance and labour are the two best physicians of man.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ModerationHard Work
“If the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
MedicineFunny
“For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.”
The Bible (Proverbs 4:22)
WisdomFaith
“A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.”
The Bible (Proverbs 14:30)
Peace Of MindEnvy
“Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 33:6)
HealingHope
“Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved.”
The Bible (Jeremiah 17:14)
HealingPrayer
“They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.”
The Bible (Matthew 9:12)
CompassionHealing
“For I am the Lord that healeth thee.”
The Bible (Exodus 15:26)
HealingFaith
“There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart.”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach 30:16)
WealthJoy
“Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him.”
Ecclesiasticus (Sirach 38:1)
DoctorsRespect