Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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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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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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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