More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
