Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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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.
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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.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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When 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?
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