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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
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.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.
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.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.
