Inspirational Nurse Quotes

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

Florence Nightingale

Nursing, Science, Thinking

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

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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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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, Nurse

"Florence Nightingale to her Nurses".

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The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

Florence Nightingale

Nursing, Light, Sick

Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.48, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

Thomas Carlyle

Inspirational, Hate, Nursing

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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Khalil Gibran

Inspirational, Strength, Kindness

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Leave people better than you found them.

Marvin J. Ashton

Nursing, People, Forgiving Heart

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He who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: Nurses make a difference.

Brittney Wilson

Jobs, Mean, Nursing

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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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Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Mason Cooley

Inspirational, Compassion, Caregivers

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Clara Barton

Military, War, Nursing

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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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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 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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