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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
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.
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.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
