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.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALEI attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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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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Never give nor take an excuse.
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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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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.
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The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
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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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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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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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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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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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I can stand out the war with any man.
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Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
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