Inspirational Nurse Quotes

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

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Sick

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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• The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

  William Osler

  Nursing, Blessing, Nurse

  Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Nurse and Patient'

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

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Nursing, Nurse

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• Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Wisdom

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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.

  Florence Nightingale

  Life, Art, Hard Work

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• Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.

  Myrtle Aydelotte

  Art, Taken, Nursing

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• Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Expectations

  Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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 nurses were all angels in my eyes.

  Randy Castillo

  Eye, Angel, Nursing

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• As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Heart, Nursing, Opportunity

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• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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  The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

  Florence Nightingale

  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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• Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Nursing, Thinking, Eggs

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• You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Philosophy, Nursing

  "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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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, Nurse

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

  Warren Beatty

  Hate, Nursing, Nurse

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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  Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nursing, Nurse, Important

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.

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• Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Nursing, Play, Nurse

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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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.

  Florence Nightingale

  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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  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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• There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

  Florence Nightingale

  Pain, Nursing, Looks

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2001). “Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.91, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Sick, Skins

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.64

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