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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
— Florence Nightingale
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses ... we must be learning all of our lives.
— Florence Nightingale
I can stand out the war with any man.
— Florence Nightingale
[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.
— Florence Nightingale
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
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
— Florence Nightingale
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
— Florence Nightingale
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.
— Florence Nightingale
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
— Florence Nightingale
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
— Florence Nightingale
Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone.
— Florence Nightingale
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
— Florence Nightingale
The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.
— Florence Nightingale
For the sick it is important to have the best.
— Florence Nightingale
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
— Florence Nightingale
Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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
Diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.
— Florence Nightingale
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
— Florence Nightingale
I attribute my success to this: - I never gave or took an excuse.
— Florence Nightingale
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
— Stacy Schiff
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
— Florence Nightingale
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
— Florence Nightingale
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
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
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
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
— Florence Nightingale
Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.
— Florence Nightingale
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
— Florence Nightingale
I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.
— Florence Nightingale
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
— Florence Nightingale
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
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
— Florence Nightingale