Florence Nightingale Quotes

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

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  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.

  Florence Nightingale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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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 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

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  Beauty, Healing, Underestimate

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

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  Journey, Destiny, Vision

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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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• All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.

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  Taken, Nursing, Years

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.1

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• The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

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  Heaven, Kingdoms, Circumstances

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.18, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

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  Jesus, Passion, Men

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's spiritual journey: biblical annotations, sermons and journal notes”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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• The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

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  Female, Next, Christ

  1852 'Cassandra' pt.4, part of an unpublished work Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truth (revised and privately printed1859). Published as an appendix in Ray Strachey The Cause: A Short History of theWomen'sMovement in Great Britain (1928).

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• The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

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  Nursing, Light, Air

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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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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• Never give nor take an excuse.

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  Motivational, Giving, Excuse

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