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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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.
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.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
