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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

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale. — Florence Nightingale

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

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

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

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

Heaven is neither a place nor a time. — Florence Nightingale

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown. — Elizabeth Blackwell

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don't feel very much. — Franny Billingsley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions — Florence Nightingale

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

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

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

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

I use the word nursing for want of a better. — 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

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

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

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

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

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty. — Florence Nightingale

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never give nor take an excuse. — Florence Nightingale

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