63 result(s) for Florence Nightingale Quotes.
"Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it."
"For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion."
"I am never sorry when I have shed a tear or a drop of perspiration in a good cause."
"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."
"Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is having to do with dead canvas or cold marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts."
"Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head: Not, how can I always do what I want, but how can I include everything and yet do all that is necessary?"
"How mysterious are the ways of Providence in preserving us from unknown dangers."
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"Were there nothing precious and sacred in the daily life of the hospital, there must be something radically wrong in the system of work."
"I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs..."
"Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift."
"Sick children and sick babies are by far the most difficult, and the nurse has never done anything till she has learned how to manage them."
"I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
"Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion."
"Nature alone cures; what nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him."
"He who could retain the flame in his hand till it flickered, without being burnt, was reckoned among the chief of the divine messengers."
"Always remember how full of possibilities love is."
"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm."
"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather, not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."
"Were there nothing else to prove that evolution is a fundamental Law of Nature, this single example would be sufficient."
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse."
"Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest."
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"I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."
"For the sick, it is important to have the best."
"To understand God's thoughts, we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose."
"People think a soul immortal only because they do not see the dead."
"Experience is the puzzles in the game—it is the step to higher puzzles."
"The world is put back by the death of everyone who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."
"No man, provider of income himself, has the right to take away a living from a woman."
"Find out how stress affects you as an individual; experiment with yourself, and you will be able to acquire knowledge useful for others."
"Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried once only."
"I am fain to beauty in a woman who is said not to be beautiful."
"I shall make each of my nurses a better nurse than myself."
"Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore."
"I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs."
"Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it."
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"Were we to be without enemies, our characters would be poorly developed."
"I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."
"Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own."
"Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?"
"To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics."
"Environmental cleanliness is as essential to a soldier as sanitation to a physician; food is the most indispensable. All the arsenals and armed forces in the world are nothing without food."
"To be 'in charge' is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures yourself but to see that everyone else does so too."
"The connection between health and the dwellings of the population is one of the most important that exists."
"How often have I seen people fail to secure ordinary advantage from the most ordinary means, owing to their lack of skill in packing or unpacking a bag."
"Rather, ten times die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore."
"The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick."
"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."
"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."
"Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it."
"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
"I think it's a very great virtue to trust no one."
"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."
"Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him."
"I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel."
"Instead of wishing to see more doctors, nurses, patients, Christiana, professors of this and that, in the world believe in the true God to whom belong the issues of life, and your wish will be granted."
"Instead of a law, sin was born; and that sin, passing from father to son, decreed that, as a mother, you should bring forth horrors on horrors."
"I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have."
"How little can be done under the spirit of fear."
"To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose."
"To be 'in charge' is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures but to carry them out with an adequate authority."
"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."
"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm."
"The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel."
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