More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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.
