Being a doctor is one of the noblest and most difficult professions. Doctors heal the sick and make life-saving decisions. Here’s a list of positive and inspiring quotes about doctors who have helped millions of people and saved lives around the clock.
Funny Doctor Quotes
“God heals and the doctor takes the fees.”
Benjamin Franklin
A doctor is a man licensed to make grave mistakes.”
Leonard Louis Levinson
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but if the doctor is cute, forget the fruit.”
Unknown
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
Erma Bombeck
“The best doctor gives the least medicines.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren’t a quack.”
Flannery O’Connor
“I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.”
Dave Barry
“My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they’re in August.”
Ronnie Shakes
“Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.”
Peter Mere Latham
“Nineteen percent of doctors say that they’d be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.”
Jay Leno
“A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.”
John Taylor
“I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?”
Jay London
“My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn’t pay the bill, he gave me six months more.”
Walter Matthau
“Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”
Anton Chekhov
“The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.”
Jay Leno
“I told my doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.”
Henny Youngman
“Scary when the surgeon put the knife in his hands.”
Unknown
“A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.”
Joey Adams
“My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they’re in August.”
Ronnie Shakes
“The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can’t ask his patients what the matter is – he’s got to just know.”
Will Rogers
“It’s kinda scary when a doctor asks your price range.”
Tom Wilson
“According to hospital insurance codes, there are 9 different ways you can be injured by turtles.”
Wall Street Journal
Female Doctor Quotes
“There aren’t more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren’t more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.”
Dorothy Fields
“I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I’m going to be a doctor.”
Amy Jo Johnson
“Sometimes, the best thing we can do for our patients is to tell them what the best behavior is and then negotiate something they can live with.”
Nancy Dickey
“Doctors are the second-best people after parents. They always give life to us…!! and much more, cute female doctors could even be better than real parents, they just know how to calm you down.”
Unknown
Male Doctor Quotes
“In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.”
Cicero
“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
“As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.”
Andrew Weil
“I can’t wait to work with Peter Capaldi as the next ‘Doctor.’ I know him from old; he’s such a lovely man and will be brilliant in the role. As long as he tones down the Malcolm Tucker swearing.”
Neve McIntosh
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.”
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
“The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.”
Edward Jenner
“To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.”
Unknown
Proud to be a Doctor Quotes
“Medicine cure diseases but only doctors can cure patients.”
Carl Jung
“Always remember the privilege it is to be a physician.”
Daniel P. Logan
“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”
Hippocrates
“God cannot be everywhere, so He sent the Doctors with excellence and selflessness.”
Unknown
“I remember the feeling of joy, almost to tears, the day I discharged my first patient from the hospital and the tears that I can never hold back during the miracle of birth. That feeling is a reward for our hard work here [in medical school] and in the years that follow… I can’t imagine being a doctor without it… I ask you to recall the vigor and happiness of our youths and then, imagine the beauty of that energy channeled into the care of another human being.”
John-Paul H. Dedam
“The presence of the doctor is the beginning of the cure.”
Proverbs
“We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.”
Ben Carson
“Only the healing art enables one to make a name for himself and at the same time give benefit to others.”
Chinese Proverb
“Wear the white coat with dignity and pride, it is an honor and privilege to get to serve the public as a physician.”
Bill H. Warren
“[Being a doctor] offers the most complete and constant union of those three qualities which have the greatest charm for pure and active minds – novelty, utility, and charity.”
Sir James Paget
“I am a doctor it’s a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect, and willingness to help all other people.”
Ewa Kopac
“Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you’re obviously dealing with life and death issues… if you can handle that, you can handle anything.”
Ken Jeong
“People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.”
Seneca
“A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.”
Joseph Addison
“The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“If the love of surgery is proof of a person’s being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to be a surgeon… I am more and more delighted with my profession.”
Joseph Lister
“I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.”
Joseph Lister
“The person intending to practice this kind of surgery must serve in the army and accompany it on expeditions abroad; for in this way he would become experienced in this practice.”
Hippocrates
“The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty – not marble floors and foundations.”
Martin H. Fischer
“All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance, only by the human sense in which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.”
Hermann Nothnagel
Doctors’ Day Quotes
“Appreciate every doctor out there who saves us.”
Unknown
“As a caregiver, you see selfless acts every day.”
Dr. Raj Panjabi
“Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.”
Giorgio Baglivi
“The toughest and responsible job is to be a doctor.”
Unknown
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
Albert Einstein
“Doctor: Your devotion and care bring healing, comfort, and hope.”
Unknown
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
William Osler
“Because of this deadly disease, I was losing my hope to live. But doctor, you have injected new life in me. You are simply the best. Thank you!”
Unknown
“The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life; the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.”
William J. Mayo
“[As a doctor] people will trust you, confide in you, and appreciate your efforts. You can do amazing things for people if you don’t let the system get you down.”
Wes Fischer
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.”
Marcel Proust
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“While the journey seems long and hard at the beginning with perseverance and dedication the rewards at the end last a lifetime.”
William R. Francis
“To solve a difficult problem in medicine, don’t study it directly, but rather pursue a curiosity about nature and the rest will follow. Do basic research.”
Roger Kornberg, PhD
“If we exert ourselves with determination, no obstacle can stop our progress.”
Dr. B. C. Roy
“Only a doctor is blessed with the magical powers to treat a life, to bring health into our lives and to be there with us when we have lost all the hopes.”
Unknown
“I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.”
Patrick Soon-Shiong
“Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources.”
Jan Schakowsky
“Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself.”
Martin H Fischer
“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
Short Doctor Quotes
“God cannot come for us all the time, that’s why he sent doctors for us.”
Unknown
“There is no such thing as an infallible doctor.”
Edward E. Rosenbaum
“Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.”
Jodi Picoult
“It’s gonna be tough but tough can’t be impossible.”
Unknown
“Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.”
Norman Cousins
“Sometimes, doctors risk their lives just to save others.”
Unknown
“I would still ‘do it again’ despite all the difficulty of training and roadblocks to just practice medicine. Truly it’s worth it!”
James A. Bowden
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
Jonathan Swift
“I’m a huge ‘Vampire Diaries’ fan. My sister got me into ‘Doctor Who.’ Those are my biggest things.”
Mary Mouser
“A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.”
Craig Venter
“Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.”
Richard Diaz
“People with visions should go to the doctor.”
Helmut Schmidt
“You don’t lie to your own doctor. You don’t lie to your own attorney, and you don’t lie to your employees.”
Gordon Bethune
“Your face tells a story, and it shouldn’t be a story about your drive to the doctor’s office.”
Julia Roberts
“I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.”
Groucho Marx
“Doctor is a God for every patient.”
Unknown
“A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.”
John Taylor
“The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.”
Denis Diderot
“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Doctors are great as long as you don’t need them.”
Edward E. Rosenbaum
“Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.”
Don Herold
“Doctor’s read so many books just to save others’ life.”
Unknown
“I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I’m happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.”
James Stewart
“At the moment the world is suffering from large numbers of people who have no purpose in life – for whom there is no opportunity – and that’s sad.”
Jonas Salk
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”
Hippocrates
Wrapping Up
We hope you enjoyed these inspiring and motivational quotes about doctors. If you enjoyed them, pick the one you like to thank your doctor, and make sure to save the rest of them for later!
