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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
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.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
