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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.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Never give nor take an excuse.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
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.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
