Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIn a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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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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