I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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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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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
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It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?
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I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
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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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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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There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.
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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.
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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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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
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I 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.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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