To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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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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The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
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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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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
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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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I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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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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Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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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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Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.
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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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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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When 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?
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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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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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