Florence Nightingale Quotes.
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
Everything you do in a patient’s room, after he is ‘put up’ for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk – you secure him a bad night.
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
For the sick it is important to have the best.
Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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.
The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
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.
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work.
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses….we must be learning all of our lives.
