More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.
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.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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.
