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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELive life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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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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