If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
Make a habit of two things—to help, or at least to do no harm.
That's all I want- to do no harm.
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.
Do not do unto others what would not be good for yourself.
Michael respected doctors immensely: that they went to school, that they studied... to do no harm.
Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility.
People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.
When I took the Hippocratic oath and was effectively 'sworn in' as a doctor, I took the same vow that doctors have taken for generations. Patient autonomy is core to this oath.
If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.
