Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI 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.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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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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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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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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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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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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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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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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