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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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• If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Christian, Nursing, Doctors

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• Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism”, p.115, Shambhala Publications

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• My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

  Lois Capps

  Encouragement, Children, School

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• I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

  Shirley Bassey

  Shows, Wanted, Show Business

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• God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nursing, Men, Grace

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.114

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• Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

  Yoko Ono

  Healing, Healed, Healer

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• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

  Florence Nightingale

  Women, Nursing, Opportunity

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

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• Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

  Cotton Mather

  Firsts, Combination, Mankind

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• It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Nursing, Praise

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• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  Ornette Coleman

  Book, Nursing, Sick

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

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Expectations, Waiting

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

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• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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• It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Sick, Principles

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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• When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Children, Echoes, Curves

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.737, Dell

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

  Florence Nightingale

  Motivational, Fear, Women

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

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• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Opportunity, Mustard

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

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• Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

  Joseph Butler

  Nursing, Compassion, Unhappy

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

  Bill Frist

  Country, Technology, Doctors

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• Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Doctors, Office

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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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• Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Teacher, Heaven, Seats

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Doubt is an old disease.
  Faith is an old medicine.
  Compassion is an old doctor.
  Concern is an old nurse.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Compassion, Doctors, Medicine

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.

  Eve Ensler

  Passionate, Feels

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Crazy, Doctors, Nhs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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