No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEHospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
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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 great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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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 underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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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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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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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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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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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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