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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
Never give nor take an excuse.
May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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.
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.
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
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.
