I can stand out the war with any man.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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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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The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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