Never give nor take an excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Let 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?
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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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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 want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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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 craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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