More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
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.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
