Nursing Quotes - Page 3

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

  William Osler

  Blessing, Nurse, Humanity

  Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Nurse and Patient'

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  Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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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

  Compassion, Nurse, Unhappy

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

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• In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Motivational, Success, Faith

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• The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

  Elbert Hubbard

  Medicine, Nurse, Kind

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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, Winning

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

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• Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Moved On, Emotion

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• Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

  Desmond Tutu

  Grudge

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, America, Nurse

  "Obama's Remarks to the American Nurses Association". www.realclearpolitics.com. June 16, 2010.

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• The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Teaching, Math, Long

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• Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

  Norman Cousins

  Healing, Recovery, Nurse

  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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• We need a comprehensive renewal of the nursing care system in Germany, and quickly. The two-tier medical system must be abolished. Patients with public health insurance are waiting months to be seen by a specialist doctor, while doctors increasingly give priority to privately insured patients. That's unacceptable. We also need an educational revolution. Medicine, nursing care, education: Germany is not a modern country when it comes to these three areas. We have to adapt our policies to the social reality. These are projects that can awaken Germany out of its torpor.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Educational, Reality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.

  Carolyn Jarvis

  Knowledge, Character, Medicine

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• To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

  Florence Nightingale

  God, Science, Understanding

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• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Reality, Law

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.4

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• Indolence of course is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Creative, Sitting, Losing

  "A lack of elegy" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2006.

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• The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Retirement, Age

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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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

  Luxury, Nurse, Mind

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• There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.

  Jo Brand

  Fall, Mean, Issues

  "Jo Brand: If the Tories are re-elected in 2015, it could be the end of the NHS". Interview with Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2013.

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• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, War, Blood

  Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• I'm eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I'm nursing my daughter.

  Lily Aldridge

  Daughter, Mother, Vegetables

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

  Peter Singer

  Engineering, Law, Medicine

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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