Never give nor take an excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAsceticism 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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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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 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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For 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.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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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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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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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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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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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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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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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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