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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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.
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.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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.
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.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
