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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
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.
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.
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
