People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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