Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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 next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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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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