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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. 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. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
