More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
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.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
