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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
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.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
