Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEStarting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWere there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWhen 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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAverages seduce us away from minute observation.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor the sick it is important to have the best.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELive life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENever to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEA nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELittle as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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