I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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The 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.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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