The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEShe said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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 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 think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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