Florence Nightingale Quotes

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale

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

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. – Florence Nightingale

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. – Florence Nightingale

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. – Florence Nightingale

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. – Florence Nightingale

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. – Florence Nightingale

What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal. – Florence Nightingale

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. – Florence Nightingale

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. – Florence Nightingale

For the sick, it is important to have the best. – Florence Nightingale

If a nurse declines to do these kinds of things for her patient, because it is not her business, I should say that nursing was not her calling. – Florence Nightingale

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed. – Florence Nightingale

Subordinate, work with your own hands and you will be able to understand and appreciate the work of others. – Florence Nightingale

I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a patient. Never lost one. So what the hell is this man doing here? – Florence Nightingale

To get into a habit of dealing with something thoroughly, we must practice it daily. – Florence Nightingale

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

When I think of a sick- owing to an epidemic- am I to call the sufferers patients or victims. – Florence Nightingale

Wash out your own mind. Do not let yourself be filled with impure thoughts. – Florence Nightingale

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps. – Florence Nightingale

No aged infeebled life would pass out without some gentle hand to hold him back from the other world, at least until he feels for himself the hand of his Saviour. – Florence Nightingale

The smaller the death rate, the smaller the average duration of life: how will our population double itself if the average duration of life remains only 15 or 20 years. – Florence Nightingale

It will take 150 nurses to do the work that was considered sufficient 30 years ago for

– Florence Nightingale

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. – Florence Nightingale

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. – Florence Nightingale

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in mind: not how can I always do this right thing myself, but how can I provide for this right thing to be always done? – Florence Nightingale

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

I feel I have got my mission: – Florence Nightingale

My God. How can man live without a nurse’s cap. – Florence Nightingale

And what nursing has to do in either case, is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him. – Florence Nightingale

What is it that we want to ensure? That the patient has the best that can be provided for his disease. – Florence Nightingale

The craving to use science and maths not merely for the creating of gadgets, but for the solving of the everyday problems of practical living, must be recognized from the beginning. It is here that the main hope of our civilization, if not of the human race, lies. – Florence Nightingale

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. – Florence Nightingale

Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. – Florence Nightingale

Once upon a time there was an Aussie being interviewed by an English journalist. The latter shook his head sadly and said, ‘Oh, but you will come back.’ ‘You bet I’ll come back,’ was the cheerful retort, ‘when you come to visit me! – Florence Nightingale

May you live all the days of your life. – Florence Nightingale

Let the women of LONDON claim the honour.’ Manners makyth man—so I believe; politeness is greatness too. Let them claim the honour of having been the first nurses in the world. – Florence Nightingale

Being the year 1851, the eye and mind of England might well find employment and amusement in endeavouring to estimate whether this empire—an empire faithful to itself—nourishing, that is, loyal and devoted subjects—increasing and multiplying in health, vigour, and beauty, is capable of adapting the precepts of Christ to its social relations,—all its social relations. – Florence Nightingale

Aught we know of Him, shall we not do it? A failure is a failure though we be His followers. – Florence Nightingale

She gave relief to suffering and judicious guidance to her disciples with a generosity which knew no exhaustion, and with a gratitude which never consented to forget the obligation which she had conferred, even when the extent to which it had been repaid made it appear of secondary importance. – Florence Nightingale

Nursing is the form of women’s work today which is devoting itself most to finding and equally apportioning opportunity and access. – Florence Nightingale

If we know how to deal with the difficulties of life, we will achieve greater success. – Florence Nightingale

If I could give you one key to life, I would tell you that it is to understand human behaviour. – Florence Nightingale

She was an abstraction of purpose, a projecting of that purpose into reality; only with its embodiment did she come to be. – Florence Nightingale

The essential consideration about schools is that they are workshops wherein the photographs of society are being developed. – Florence Nightingale

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education and like most great things, vary with great variations of time. Unsanitary conditions are just as much a matter of education as hygiene itself. – Florence Nightingale

Knowledge is vital. It improves your life. It gives you new opportunities. – Florence Nightingale

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. – Florence Nightingale