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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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.
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.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
