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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.
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.
Never give nor take an excuse.
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.
Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
