Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEApprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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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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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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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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