"The very first requirement in a hospital is……" — Florence Nightingale

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

— Florence Nightingale

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85 Quotes by Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we…
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…
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can…
Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances…
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted 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…
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…
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.

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More First Requirement Quotes

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The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence. — Mother Teresa
Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious,… — Rajneesh
The first requirement for a composer is to be dead. — Arthur Honegger
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence. — Cesar Chavez
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units. — Claude Bernard
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay… — Charles Krauthammer
The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible,… — Norman Cousins
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and… — John Major
All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven,… — Peter S. Beagle
the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other. — Deborah Harkness
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. — Dean Acheson
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do… — Florence Nightingale

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