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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
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.
