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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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.
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.
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.
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come ... when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
