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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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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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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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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.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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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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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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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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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