Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEStarting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWhy have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEShe said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe 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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEReligion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI 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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELet 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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELet us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEUnnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALETo understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEVariety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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