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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
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.
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.
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.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
