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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
