Quote

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

Patch Adams

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Patch Adams
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 28
Diplomat
Physician
Washington
District of Columbia
Poverty
Health
Means
Mean
Life
Devoting
Ending
Excellence

More quotes by Patch Adams

Image
See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!
Patch Adams
Image
All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.
Patch Adams
Image
One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.
Patch Adams
Image
No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.
Patch Adams
Image
If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem.
Patch Adams
Image
Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it's not too late. Just get off your ass and work for revolution.
Patch Adams
Image
When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.
Patch Adams
Image
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
Patch Adams
Image
I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I want the famous to be inspiring their lives an example of what every human being has it in them to do - act from love!
Patch Adams
Image
We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship.
Patch Adams
Image
Every human being has an impact on another.
Patch Adams
Image
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people.
Patch Adams
Image
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
Patch Adams
Image
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams
Image
You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.
Patch Adams
Image
People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid.
Patch Adams
Image
My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want to live in that world, so I spent a year, aged 17 to 18, trying to kill myself. I didn't want to live in a world of violence and injustice.
Patch Adams
Image
For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.
Patch Adams
Image
The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.
Patch Adams
Image
Please give your life to peace, justice and care.
Patch Adams