187 Quotes by William Osler

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Taking a lady's hand gives her confidence in her physician.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.