No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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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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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any 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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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If 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.
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