Facing health problems might be one of the most difficult periods in life. Patients frequently require emotional and mental support in addition to medical care. Motivational quotations can bring a much-needed spark of hope, strength, and positivity during difficult situations.
Here are some motivating quotes for various stages of a patient’s journey, arranged to cater to different emotional needs.
Quotes for Hope and Being Positive
Patients often face uncertainty and fear. These quotes will uplift the spirit. These will create hope and positivity.
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”
Christopher Reeve
“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.”
Tori Amos
“The best of healers is good cheer.”
Pindus
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
Orison Swett Marden
“Although the world is full of suffering, it’s full also of the overcoming it.”
Helen Keller
“What you do today can improve all of your tomorrows.”
Ralph Marston
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
“I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.”
Anonymous
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
Vivian Greene
“A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.”
Dalai Lama
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
William James
“Your body hears everything your mind says.”
Naomi Judd
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
“In order to achieve the impossible, one must first try the absurd.”
Fernando Pessoa
“You can’t put a limit on how much you can improve and how much you can do. There are no limits on what you can be, or what you can do, except the limits you place on yourself.”
Brian Tracy
“We can’t control the direction of the wind, but we can adjust our sails.”
Jimmy Dean
“No matter how hard life gets, never give up on yourself.”
Unknown
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Rob Siltanen
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
H. G. Wells
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Pablo Picasso
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.”
Tony Robbins
Also Read: 10 Golden Words for Life
Quotes for Patient about Friendship
“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
George Santayana
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
Euripides
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
Sarah Desse
“Friendship is essentially a partnership.”
Aristotle
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
Khalil Gibran
“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
Dean Koontz
Quotes for Staying Strong
Facing sickness requires great mental and physical strength. These quotes encouraging patients that they are capable of overcoming difficult situations and emerging stronger.
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
Robert H. Schuller
“It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Tough times don’t last, tough people do.”
Anonymous
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
Charles R. Swendoll
“We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”
George S. Patton
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
C.S. Lewis
“The treatment is really a cooperative of a trinity — the patient, the doctor and the inner doctor.”
Ralph Bircher
Quotes for Inner Peace, Faith and Spiritual Strength
Healing can sometimes be as simple as accepting the situation and finding inner peace. These statements provide relief during times of surrender and acceptance.
“Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.”
Michael J. Fox
“Serenity is not the absence of storms, but the presence of peace amid the storm.”
Anonymous
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”
Wayne W. Dyer
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Faith is not about everything turning out okay. Faith is about being okay no matter how things turn out.”
Anonymous
“With God, all things are possible.”
Matthew 19:26
“Weapons do not cut this Spirit, fire does not burn it, water does not make it wet, and the wind does not make it dry.”
Bhagavad Gita 2.23-24
Funny Quotes for Get Well
“Be careful when reading health books; you may die of a misprint.”
Mark Twain
“A woman had two chickens. When one got sick, the woman made chicken soup from the other one to help the sick one get well.”
Henry Youngman
“I wonder why you can always read a doctor’s bill and you can never read his prescription.”
Finley Peter Dunne
“You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”
Dr. Seuss
“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”
Erma Bombeck
“Isn’t it unnerving that doctors call what they do ‘practice’?”
George Carlin
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
Voltaire
“The jokes on Get Well cards are getting so good that if you don’t get sick, you’re missing half the fun.”
Flip Wilson
“I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.”
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes for Loved Ones Supporting Patients
“We rise by lifting others.”
Robert Ingersoll
“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
Etty Hillesum
Motivational quotes for patients are gentle reminders that, no matter how difficult the road, there is always hope, strength, and courage within.
