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“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any
excuse.”
-Florence Nightingale
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”
-Florence Nightingale
“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.”
-Florence Nightingale
“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 the having to do with dead canvas or dead 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.”
-Florence Nightingale
“So 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.”
-Florence Nightingale
“If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.”
-Florence Nightingale
“The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.”
-Florence Nightingale
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
-Florence Nightingale
“Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.”
-Florence Nightingale
“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. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in “fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will” but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.”
-Florence Nightingale
“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.”
-Florence Nightingale
“You ask me why I do not write something…. I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.”
-Florence Nightingale
“Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.”
-Florence Nightingale
“It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.”
-Florence Nightingale
“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, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have ‘no time in the day to themselves.’ 1852”
-Florence Nightingale
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
-Florence Nightingale
“I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”
-Florence Nightingale
“Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.”
-Florence Nightingale
“So 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.”
-Florence Nightingale
“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”
-Florence Nightingale
“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?”
-Florence Nightingale
“The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.”
-Florence Nightingale
“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.”
-Florence Nightingale
“A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her ‘duties’, forbid it. Her ‘domestic duties’, high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.”
–Florence Nightingale
“I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”
-Florence Nightingale
“She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.”
-Florence Nightingale
“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”
– Florence Nightingale
“Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.”
-Florence Nightingale
“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.’
-Florence Nightingale
“To understand God’s thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.”
-Florence Nightingale
“Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses….we must be learning all of our lives.”
-Florence Nightingale
“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs. Neither can do anything but remove obstructions; neither can cure; nature alone cures. Surgery removes the bullet out of the limb, which is an obstruction to cure, but nature heals the wound. So it is with medicine; the function of an organ becomes obstructed; medicine so far as we know, assists nature to remove the obstruction, but does nothing more. And what nursing has to do in either case, is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”
–Florence Nightingale
“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.”
–Florence Nightingale
“To be “in charge” is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures yourself but to see that every one else does so too; to see that no one either willfully or ignorantly thwarts or prevents such measures. It is neither to do everything yourself nor to appoint a number of people to each duty, but to ensure that each does that duty to which he is appointed.”
-Florence Nightingale
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