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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
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.
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.
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.
Never give nor take an excuse.
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
