Quotes About Compassion

I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.

There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.

You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

Sexuality can be difficult to articulate, and we have to be patient and compassionate.

Fatherhood has changed me, I've become more patient.

The goal of embodying Christian ethics - if you want to call yourself a Christian - is being patient and loving with your neighbor.

If there is a moment when it is possible to intervene in the chaotic life of a homeless person, it is when they turn up as an NHS patient.

Motherhood hasn't changed me much but the only difference I feel is that I have become more patient.

I have a great dad myself and I hope to be as patient and understanding as he was with me when I was growing up.

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

My dad's a doctor. So when we were little, at our family Christmases, we'd always have a couple of his elderly patients over for lunch.

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.

I wanted to show people that doctors are humans, too. It's important for us to be around other people - that way, we can understand our patients better rather than just walking into a room, barking orders, and walking out.

I want to help AIDS patients.

When I look at the patients that I've cared for with mental illness, I know that many of them took years to come forward and tell somebody that they were in pain and that they needed help.

Covid-19-affected patients cannot be orphaned.

In a majority of hospitals, in a majority of places, it is the nurses that are on the frontlines. They're the ones working every moment with the patients to ensure that they do well.

True patriotism is loving your country and countrymen enough to want to make it better.