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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
