More Quotes by 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.
Never give nor take an excuse.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.
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.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
