Florence Nightingale

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

— Florence Nightingale

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

— Florence Nightingale

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

— Florence Nightingale

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

— Florence Nightingale

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

— Florence Nightingale

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

— Florence Nightingale

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

— Florence Nightingale

To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose

— Florence Nightingale

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the…

— Florence Nightingale

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

— Florence Nightingale

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more…

— Florence Nightingale

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I…

— Florence Nightingale

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling…

— Florence Nightingale

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws…

— Florence Nightingale

Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be…

— Florence Nightingale

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or…

— Florence Nightingale

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things…

— Florence Nightingale

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling…

— Florence Nightingale

The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the…

— Florence Nightingale

I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of…

— Florence Nightingale

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that…

— Florence Nightingale

Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut),…

— Florence Nightingale

Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they…

— Florence Nightingale

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing…

— Florence Nightingale

“It seems a commonly received idea among men and even among women themselves that it requires nothing but a disappointment in love,…

— Florence Nightingale

“The most important pratical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe-how to observe-what symptoms indicate…

— Florence Nightingale

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

— Florence Nightingale

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

— Florence Nightingale

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

— Florence Nightingale

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

— Florence Nightingale

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

— Florence Nightingale

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

— Florence Nightingale

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

— Florence Nightingale

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

— Florence Nightingale

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

— Florence Nightingale

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

— Florence Nightingale

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

— Florence Nightingale

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

— Florence Nightingale

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

— Florence Nightingale

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...

— Florence Nightingale