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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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We 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.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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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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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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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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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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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?
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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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