If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain. — 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
At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this? — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
