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.
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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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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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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The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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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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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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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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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.
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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 stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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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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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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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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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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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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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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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.
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At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.
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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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Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?
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