More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
