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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEPeople have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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