Florence Nightingale Quotes

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• Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will…
• Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
• People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on;…
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit…
• Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack…
• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and…
• Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
• The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere…
• To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
• For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it…
• Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.
• A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
• People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know…
• Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the…
• It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of…
• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or…
• For the sick it is important to have the best.
• The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters…
• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the…
• No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do…

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