Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEThe very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any 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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By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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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 never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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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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There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.
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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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People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
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Never give nor take an excuse.
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