Nursing School 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; 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 one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

Florence Nightingale

Art, Nursing, Nurse

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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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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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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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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden

Hope, Powerful, Get Well Soon

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality”, p.37, e-artnow

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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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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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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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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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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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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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It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

Clara Barton

Nursing, Luxury, Nurse

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He who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

Confucius

Nursing, Men, Nurse

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He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

Saint Basil

Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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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 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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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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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Clara Barton

Success, Nursing, Past

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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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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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When I was 12 years old, I read Nancy Drew mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

Joyce Maynard

Girl, Horse, Book

"Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

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