It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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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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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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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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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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