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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
Never give nor take an excuse.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
