Nurse Quotes - Page 2

• 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 Nightingale

  Nursing, Years, Progress

  "Florence Nightingale to her Nurses".

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• The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.

  Carolyn Jarvis

  Knowledge, Character, Nursing

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• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hope, Powerful, Get Well Soon

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality”, p.37, e-artnow

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• I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

  Clara Barton

  Success, Nursing, Past

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• Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.

  John F. Kerry

  Morning, Caring, Night

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• Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

  Lois Capps

  Communication, Nursing, Important

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• I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mistake, Doctors, Patient

  "Why We Become Doctors" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

  Jo Brand

  Hard Work, People, Office

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• The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Sick, Requirements

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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• No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

  Florence Nightingale

  Horse, Nursing, Men

  Notes on Nursing (1860)

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• By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

  John Dryden

  Children, Lying, Believe

  'The Hind and the Panther' (1687) pt. 3, l. 389

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• I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Motivational, Tattoo, Workout

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• The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• On April 2, the nurses started my first round of five intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) infusions. The clear IV bags hung on a metal pole above my head, their liquid trickling down into my vein. Each of those ordinary-looking bags contained the healthy antibodies of over a thousand blood donors and cost upwards of $20,000 per infusion. One thousand tourniquets, one thousand nurses, one thousand veins, one thousand blood-sugar regulating cookies, all just to help one patient.

  Susannah Cahalan

  Blood, Healthy, Bags

  Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

  Norman Cousins

  Healing, Recovery, Nursing

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

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  The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

  Clara Barton

  Nursing, Swings, Doors

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  It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

  Clara Barton

  Nursing, Luxury, Mind

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• Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Hate, Nursing

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• [A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

  Hilaire Belloc

  Findings

  'Cautionary Tales' (1907) 'Jim'

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• God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Medicine, Wounds

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.17

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• Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Nursing, Finest

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• A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

  Jo Brand

  Nursing, Practice, Culture

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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.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, Nursing, Sacrifice

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• The key to change is to let go of fear.

  Rosanne Cash

  Inspirational, Change, Letting Go

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

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