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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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.
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.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.