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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEStarting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
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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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When 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?
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I 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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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