Florence Nightingale Quotes

The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

Unnecessary noise is the cruelest abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

Never give nor take an excuse.

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

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

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

A woman has nothing but her affections, and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

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 of fear.

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

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

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

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

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

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.