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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.
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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
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.
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
