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Never give nor take an excuse.
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
I can stand out the war with any man.
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions
Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.
It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.