Quote

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

Florence Nightingale

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Florence Nightingale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1820
Born: May 12
Died: 1910
Died: August 13
Nurse
Politician
Statistician
Teacher
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Nightingale Florence
Lady with the Lamp
Angel of Crimea
Miss Smith
Nursing
Word
Use
Better

More quotes by Florence Nightingale

Image
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
Florence Nightingale
Image
Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
Florence Nightingale
Image
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
Florence Nightingale
Image
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
Florence Nightingale
Image
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.
Florence Nightingale
Image
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 of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
Florence Nightingale
Image
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 room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.
Florence Nightingale
Image
do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.
Florence Nightingale
Image
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
Florence Nightingale
Image
For the sick it is important to have the best.
Florence Nightingale
Image
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
Florence Nightingale
Image
Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.
Florence Nightingale
Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
Florence Nightingale
Image
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
Image
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale
Image
... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.
Florence Nightingale
Image
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 but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.
Florence Nightingale
Image
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
Florence Nightingale
Image
It is very well to say be prudent, be careful, try to know each other. But how are you to know each other?
Florence Nightingale
Image
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
Florence Nightingale