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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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.
