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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
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.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
