More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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.
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
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.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
