Inspiring Nursing Quotes

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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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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Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

Confucius

Nursing, Men, Nurse

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The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

Randy Castillo

Eye, Angel, Nursing

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Leave people better than you found them.

Marvin J. Ashton

Nursing, People, Forgiving Heart

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Elizabeth Kenny

Nursing, Play, Nurse

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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