We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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.
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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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