A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
