Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows… — 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
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this,… — 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
