Florence Nightingale Quotes

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

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• 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 just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

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• The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

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• Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death…and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

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• Look at the poor lives we lead. It is a wonder that we are so good as we are, not that we are so bad.

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• Give us back our suffering, we cry to Heaven in our hearts-suffering rather than indifferentism; for out of nothing comes nothing… Better have pain than paralysis!

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• Why have women Passion, intellect, moral activity-these three-and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised?

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• 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.

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• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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

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• She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

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• It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

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• So 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.

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• 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.

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• So 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• It’s been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I’m finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

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Florence Nightingale (19)

Birth:	12th May, 1820
Death:	13th August, 1910
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Nurse, Statistician

About

Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was known as "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.

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