No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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