More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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.
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
