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 NIGHTINGALEWhen shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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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.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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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.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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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?
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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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.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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