Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

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

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

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

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

In morning Don't go out of bed with dirty thoughts. As new day begins first thing God do is "bless our thoughts.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.

Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

Science is wisdom reduced to practice.

We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.