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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALERather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Let 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?
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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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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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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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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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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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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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