Never give nor take an excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEBy mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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.
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Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
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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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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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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 ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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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