Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEIt may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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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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No 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.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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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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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
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