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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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