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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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.
May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!
For the sick it is important to have the best.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
