A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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 time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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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 very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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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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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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