Florence Nightingale

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

— Florence Nightingale

Remember my name. you'll be screaming it later.

— Florence Nightingale

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

— Florence Nightingale

The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

— Florence Nightingale

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

— Florence Nightingale

For the sick it is important to have the best.

— Florence Nightingale

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

— Florence Nightingale

Never give nor take an excuse.

— Florence Nightingale

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

— Florence Nightingale

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

— Florence Nightingale

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses…we must be learning all of our lives.

— Florence Nightingale

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

— Florence Nightingale

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

— Florence Nightingale

“I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.”

— Florence Nightingale

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions

— Florence Nightingale

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

— Florence Nightingale

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every…

— Florence Nightingale

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the…

— Florence Nightingale

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our…

— Florence Nightingale

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to…

— Florence Nightingale

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

— Florence Nightingale

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among…

— Florence Nightingale

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly…

— Florence Nightingale

Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a…

— Florence Nightingale

A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of…

— Florence Nightingale

Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and…

— Florence Nightingale

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has…

— Florence Nightingale

The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in…

— Florence Nightingale

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and…

— Florence Nightingale

Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they…

— Florence Nightingale

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little…

— Florence Nightingale

“I would earnestly ask my sisters to keep clear of both the jargons now current everywhere (for they are equally jargons); of…

— Florence Nightingale

“You do not want the effect of your good things to be, "How wonderful for a woman!" nor would you be deterred…

— Florence Nightingale

“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as…

— Florence Nightingale

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

— Florence Nightingale

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

— Florence Nightingale

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

— Florence Nightingale

I can stand out the war with any man.

— Florence Nightingale

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

— Florence Nightingale