Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEStarting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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 NIGHTINGALEI can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELive life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEMoral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEReligion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEAverages seduce us away from minute observation.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALERather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELet 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?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEPeople have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEReligious 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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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