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10 Quotes About Healthcare and Medicine to Inspire You

Amy Thomasson
July 01, 2021

Over the past year and a half, healthcare and our healthcare workers and heroes have been at the forefront more than ever. At Affinity Strategies, we interact daily with medical professionals who are saving lives while also volunteering their minimal spare time to advance the missions and visions of vital medical associations. We are inspired daily by these individuals and wanted to provide some inspiration and motivation back to the healthcare community with ten of our favorite healthcare-related motivational quotes.

“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”
— Hippocrates

“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“In our job, you will never go home at the end of the day thinking that you haven’t done something valuable and important.”
 ― Suneel Dhand

“The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.”
Plato

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.”
— Chinese Proverb

“A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man—he must view the man in his world.”
— Harvey Cushing

“Sometimes I inspire my patients; more often they inspire me.”
— Unknown

“As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name, but they will never forget the way you made them feel.”
— Maya Angelou

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson