Profoundly inspirational healthcare quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
Famous Healthcare Quotes
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease Voltaire
For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything Owen Arthur
Prevention is better than cure
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane Martin Luther King Jr.
Health is not valued till sickness comes Thomas Fuller
Public health is a powerful tool to level that playing field, to bend the arc of our country away from distrust and disparities and back towards equity and justice Leana S. Wen
Helping those in need is not charity, it’s humanity Abhijit Naskar
Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women Michelle Obama
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings Publilius Syrus
Public health depends on winning over hearts and minds It’s not enough to just have a good policy, you have to convince people to actually follow it Leana S. Wen
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver Mahatma Gandhi
The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data Tom Frieden
No doctor knows everything. There’s a reason why it’s called practicing medicine
There is an enormous difference between seeing people as the victims of innate shortcomings and seeing them as the victims of structural violence. Indeed, it is likely that the struggle for rights is undermined whenever the history of unequal chances, and of oppression, is erased or distorted Paul Farmer
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have Winston S. Churchill
We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility A national affordable housing program would be an anti poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one Matthew Desmond
Good health shapes an expression of experiences Arif Naseem
Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that made them sick Michael Marmot
Health and healthcare are not synonymous Archelle Georgiou
But if you’re asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick Paul Farmer
Cannabis is just way too healthy for a sick health care system Sebastian Marincolo
The unhoused crisis in our country is a public health emergency, and a moral and policy failure at every level of our government Cori Bush
America’s healthcare system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system Walter Cronkite
It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy Christopher Bond
Exercise promotes positive self image and good well being Lailah Gifty Akita
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right Paul Farmer
Celebrities are not health experts Abhijit Naskar
Renewable energy could reduce emissions but also create jobs and improve public health Paul Polman
Illness has a lot to teach wellness Matt Haig
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack Gwen Moore
The first wealth is health Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is not a partisan debate; it is a human one Clean air and water, and a livable climate are inalienable human rights And solving this crisis is not a question of politics. It is our moral obligation Leonardo DiCaprio
Every single journey of your life starts with a healthy mind and a healthy journey Jitendra Attra
Climate change is intrinsically linked to public health, food and water security, migration, peace, and security. It is a moral issue It is an issue of social justice, human rights and fundamental ethics We have a profound responsibility to the fragile web of life on this Earth, and to this generation and those that will follow Ban Ki moon
It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right Teri Reynolds
A ruined planet cannot sustain human lives in good health A healthy planet and healthy people are two sides of the same coin Dr. Margaret Chan
There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress Allan Lokos
This isn’t one of those rare diseases that we don’t have the solution for We know how to fix hunger Josette Sheeran
The health care bill is nothing about health care it’s about controlling the people David Lincoln
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits Martin Luther King Jr.
As grandmothers used to say, Better to pay the grocer than the doctor Michael Pollan
Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre Einstein era Charlotte Gerson
There is considerable merit to the notion of treating gun violence as a public health matter Peter Bergen
It is important that USA healthcare workers realize that New York City is a 5G wireless radiation hot zone Steven Magee
If compassion is so good for us, why don’t we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they’re supposed to do, which is to transform suffering Joan Halifax
It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly Stephen Ambrose
The obligation of the government to protect the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare Allan Wolf
Births and cancer treatments are so expensive, it’s a luxury to live, a privilege to die J. Andrew Schrecker
Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources The deficit is in human will Martin Luther King Jr.
The current system is broken We need to move towards an era of disease prevention and personalized medicine Emmanuel Fombu
