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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
For the sick it is important to have the best.
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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.
The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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.
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.
I use the word nursing for want of a better.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.