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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWe 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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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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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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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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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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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