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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
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Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
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That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
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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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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
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In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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Remember my name– you’ll be screaming it later.
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There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
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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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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.
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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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