Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEDo not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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By 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.
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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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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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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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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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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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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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