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Florence Nightingale quotes: Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses ... we must be learning all of our lives.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses ... we must be learning all of our lives.

Florence Nightingale quotes: I can stand out the war with any man.

I can stand out the war with any man.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

Florence Nightingale quotes: That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Florence Nightingale quotes: God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Florence Nightingale quotes: [On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Florence Nightingale quotes: In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Florence Nightingale quotes: 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.

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.

Florence Nightingale quotes: The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Florence Nightingale quotes: People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

Florence Nightingale quotes: To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.

To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Florence Nightingale quotes: Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Florence Nightingale quotes: I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.

Florence Nightingale quotes: A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone.

Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

Florence Nightingale quotes: The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

Florence Nightingale quotes: For the sick it is important to have the best.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

Florence Nightingale quotes: The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

Florence Nightingale quotes: We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

Florence Nightingale quotes: It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

Florence Nightingale quotes: A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Florence Nightingale quotes: I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women ... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women ... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?

Florence Nightingale quotes: At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

Florence Nightingale quotes: A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Florence Nightingale quotes: You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Florence Nightingale quotes: I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

Florence Nightingale quotes: It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

Florence Nightingale quotes: I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Florence Nightingale quotes: There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.

Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.

Florence Nightingale quotes: There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions

Florence Nightingale quotes: She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

Do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

Florence Nightingale quotes: I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Florence Nightingale quotes: I attribute my success to this: - I never gave or took an excuse.

I attribute my success to this: - I never gave or took an excuse.

Florence Nightingale quotes: I use the word nursing for want of a better.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

Florence Nightingale quotes: 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.

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.

Florence Nightingale quotes: The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

Florence Nightingale quotes: I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

Florence Nightingale quotes: I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Florence Nightingale quotes: There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale quotes: How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Woman has nothing but her affections,and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Woman has nothing but her affections,
and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Florence Nightingale quotes: The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Remember my name you'll be screaming it later.

Remember my name
you'll be screaming it later.

Florence Nightingale quotes: No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

Florence Nightingale quotes: The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

Florence Nightingale quotes: Never give nor take an excuse.

Never give nor take an excuse.

Florence Nightingale quotes: The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.