Littles Quotes by Florence Nightingale

8 Littles quotes by Florence Nightingale

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Florence Nightingale’s brief reflections on modest details reflect her compassionate, observant nature. They offer a gentle reminder of care in everyday life.

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

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

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

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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,…

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When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows…

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done…

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

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Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this,…

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We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but…

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The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no…

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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

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

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

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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the…

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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…

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The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

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

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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and…

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For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that…

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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as…

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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,…

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

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Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

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