Looking for quotes

Anjel1030 said:
This is on my badge at work

"There is no higher honor than to be given the responsibility to care for another human being"

-Richard K. Schachern

And our pens say

"we take care of people, that's what we do"
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I like your sig.
 
EMT91 said:
While many of these are funny and clever, I am looking for more inspirational quotes, I suppose.
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I swear this is a real quote from an EMS professional said after she was hit by a thrown object during a domestic dispute.

"Damn that banana hurt"

I also like

"Our job is to save your @ss not to kiss it" I actually had pens made with that printed on the side I hand out to people I work with.

But one that stuck with me for the last 17 years

"Kill em with kindness"
 
Just saw this on a friends FB page.

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
~Dr. Seuss
 
"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that is true strength."

Or

"Dead is bad enough, no need to make it worse."
 
Vetitas86 said:
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Ghandi
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Why does this quote seem so familiar?
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There's no smiley that looks down...so look down :cool:
 
There's a reason I suggested looking through the signature quotes.
 
“Sometimes the best we can do is to juggle with fatal possibilities until one gets the better of us.” -firetender

"Sometimes you have to skip to the end of the algorithm." -usafmedic45

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." -Rabindranath Tagore

“To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness” -Maurice Maeterlinck

"Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world." -Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a


I suppose that's enough for now.
 
fast65 said:
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." -Rabindranath Tagore
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One of the best I've seen. Thanks for sharing it.
 
These are not meant to be funny.

All pain eventually stops.

All bleeding eventually stops.

Children are like LP10 batteries. They'll give you everything they have until there ain't no more. Then they quit. Right there. Right then.

Adults will give you fare warning they're about to crash. The neonate will give you no warning whatsoever.

Pain is an assessment tool

If your pt isn't breathing, you make damn sure you do.

You can't kill a dead man.

If it'll fit it, stick it (regarding IV's, NGT's, & ETT's).

If you have a radial pulse and good mentation, you have a perfusing blood pressure.

You're not not dead until you're warm and dead.

Take the ER to the pt.

If I'm hanging on to the "oh sh#t bar" like a spider monkey, I'm not taking care of the pt. Drive the truck like you're driving on ice.

If you hear an adult pt audibly wheezing from 10ft away, put your scope on them 99 times out of 100 it ain't asthma.

Dead from blunt trauma usually gets 3 leads and a sheet.
 
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bigbaldguy said:
Just saw this on a friends FB page.

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
~Dr. Seuss
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That's from the lorax
 
"never judge, always help"

don't remember where I heard it.
 
I love quotes. See my sig for one of my favorites. A couple others I came across recently:

"To truly care for people, you have to truly care for people." -- Randolph Mantooth

"An EMT’s most basic job is to notice stuff and then wonder about it." -- Thom ****
 
"If it's wet and slimy or sticky and not yours, don't touch it."
 
Here's some great ones from Peter Safar, often referred to as the "Father of CPR":

"Peter's Laws for the Navigation of Life," subtitled "The Creed of the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive" (From this Post-Gazette ARTICLE):

No. 2: When given a choice -- take both!

No. 9. If you can't win, change the rules

No. 10. If you can't change the rules, then ignore them

No. 12: When faced without a challenge, make one

No. 20. Death is not the enemy but occasionally needs help with timing

No. 21: When on thin ice, dance

No. 22: It's up to us to save the world
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

Read this in book somewhere.
 
"Experience is what you have, just after you needed it."

"Life is tough, it's tougher if you are stupid."
 
Do not become a victim of CRIS (Cranial-Rectal Insertion Syndrome).
 
"A stich in time saves nine."
- old saying likely about sewing, but oddly applies to EMS.

"Don't p*ss into the wind."
- Draw your own conclusions.

And on a more serious note,

"We are here to add what we can to, not get what we can from, life."

"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but seeing wisely."

“Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look -- these the patient understands.”

All courtesy of Sir William Osler.
 
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