Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIf a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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 NIGHTINGALEBy mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALENo man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.
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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEFor the sick it is important to have the best.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEStarting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThat Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI use the word nursing for want of a better.
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 NIGHTINGALEMoral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEWoman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThere are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
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