Florence Nightingale Quotes

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  Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nurse, Our Lives, Finished

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• Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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  Life, Art, Hard Work

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  I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" by Frank McCourt and Erin Gruwell, (p. 410), 2007.

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  Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

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  Art, Nursing, Nurse

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.291, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Women

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• Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

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  Art, Nursing, Progressive

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• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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  Motivational, Fear, Women

  "The Book of Positive Quotations" by John Cook, (p. 479), 2007.

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• Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

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  Nursing, Nurse, Patient

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.17, University of Pennsylvania Press

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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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  Hero, Nursing, Nurse

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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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  Nursing, Nurse, Important

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.122, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

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  Beauty, Healing, Underestimate

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• Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.

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  Character, Self, Law

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• 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.

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  Nursing, Years, Nurse

  "Florence Nightingale to her Nurses".

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

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  Nursing, Nurse, Sick

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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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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  Nursing, Simple, Done

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.32

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• I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

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  Nursing, Science, Thinking

  Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale (1930). “Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England”

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• Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

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  Journey, Destiny, Vision

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• For the sick it is important to have the best.

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  Science, Sick, Important

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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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  Smart, Excellence, Littles

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• Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

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  Struggle, Wrestling, Fighting

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• If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

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  Giving, Ordinary, Would Be

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• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

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  Health, Nursing, Light

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.31, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.

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  Art, Organization, Giving

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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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  Happiness, Inspirational Life, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.13, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

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  God, Nursing, Science

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