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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
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.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
