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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
