There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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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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No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
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It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
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I can stand out the war with any man.
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God – to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
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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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Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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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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