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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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.
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.
