Florence Nightingale Quotes And Sayings

Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She gave nursing a highly favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of “The Lady with the Lamp” making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. Nightingale was a prodigious and versatile writer. In her lifetime, much of her published work was concerned with spreading medical knowledge. Some of her tracts were written in simple English so that they could easily be understood by those with poor literary skills.

I Attribute My Success To This - I Never Gave Or Took Any Excuse.

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Every Nurse Ought To Be Careful To Wash Her Hands Very Frequently During The Day. If Her Face, Too, So Much The Better.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (10) - Every Nurse Ought To Be Carefu... - QuotesEvery Nurse Ought To Be Careful To Wash Her Hands Very Frequently During The Day. If Her Face, Too, So Much The Better.

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Live Your Life While You Have It. Life Is A Splendid Gift. There Is Nothing Small In It. Far The Greatest Things Grow By God's Law Out Of The Smallest. But To Live Your Life, You Must Discipline It.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (11) - Live Your Life While You Have ... - QuotesLive Your Life While You Have It. Life Is A Splendid Gift. There Is Nothing Small In It. Far The Greatest Things Grow By God's Law Out Of The Smallest. But To Live Your Life, You Must Discipline It.

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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.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (12) - The Martyr Sacrifices Themselv... - QuotesThe 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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Badly Constructed Houses Do For The Healthy What Badly Constructed Hospitals Do For The Sick. Once Insure That The Air In A House Is Stagnant, And Sickness Is Certain To Follow.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (13) - Badly Constructed Houses Do Fo... - QuotesBadly Constructed Houses Do For The Healthy What Badly Constructed Hospitals Do For The Sick. Once Insure That The Air In A House Is Stagnant, And Sickness Is Certain To Follow.

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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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Women Have No Sympathy And My Experience Of Women Is Almost As Large As Europe.

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God Spoke To Me And Called Me To His Service. What Form This Service Was To Take The Voice Did Not Say.

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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 Quotes (17) - The Greatest Heroes Are Those ... - QuotesThe Greatest Heroes Are Those Who Do Their Duty In The Daily Grind Of Domestic Affairs Whilst The World Whirls As A Maddening Dreidel.

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If A Patient Is Cold, If A Patient Is Feverish, If A Patient Is Faint, If He Is Sick After Taking Food, If He Has A Bed-sore, It Is Generally The Fault Not Of The Disease, But Of The Nursing.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (18) - If A Patient Is Cold, If A Pat... - QuotesIf A Patient Is Cold, If A Patient Is Feverish, If A Patient Is Faint, If He Is Sick After Taking Food, If He Has A Bed-sore, It Is Generally The Fault Not Of The Disease, But Of The Nursing.

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Wise And Humane Management Of The Patient Is The Best Safeguard Against Infection.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (19) - Wise And Humane Management Of ... - QuotesWise And Humane Management Of The Patient Is The Best Safeguard Against Infection.

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If I Could Give You Information Of My Life, It Would Be To Show How A Woman Of Very Ordinary Ability Has Been Led By God In Strange And Unaccustomed Paths To Do In His Service What He Has Done In Her. And If I Could Tell You All, You Would See How God Has Done All, And I Nothing.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (2) - If I Could Give You Information... - QuotesIf I Could Give You Information Of My Life, It Would Be To Show How A Woman Of Very Ordinary Ability Has Been Led By God In Strange And Unaccustomed Paths To Do In His Service What He Has Done In Her. And If I Could Tell You All, You Would See How God Has Done All, And I Nothing.

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Everything You Do In A Patient's Room, After He Is 'Put Up' For The Night, Increases Tenfold The Risk Of His Having A Bad Night. But, If You Rouse Him Up After He Has Fallen Asleep, You Do Not Risk - You Secure Him A Bad Night.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (20) - Everything You Do In A Patient... - QuotesEverything You Do In A Patient's Room, After He Is 'Put Up' For The Night, Increases Tenfold The Risk Of His Having A Bad Night. But, If You Rouse Him Up After He Has Fallen Asleep, You Do Not Risk - You Secure Him A Bad Night.

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Sick Children, If Not Too Shy To Speak, Will Always Express This Wish. They Invariably Prefer A Story To Be Told To Them, Rather Than Read To Them.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (21) - Sick Children, If Not Too Shy ... - QuotesSick Children, If Not Too Shy To Speak, Will Always Express This Wish. They Invariably Prefer A Story To Be Told To Them, Rather Than Read To Them.

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I Have Learned To Know God. I Have Recast My Social Belief... All My Admirers Are Married; Most Of My Friends Are Dead; And I Stand With All The World Before Me, Where To Choose A Path To Make In It.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (22) - I Have Learned To Know God. I ... - QuotesI Have Learned To Know God. I Have Recast My Social Belief... All My Admirers Are Married; Most Of My Friends Are Dead; And I Stand With All The World Before Me, Where To Choose A Path To Make In It.

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A Hundred Struggle And Drown In The Breakers. One Discovers The New World. But Rather, Ten Times Rather, Die In The Surf, Heralding The Way To That New World, Than Stand Idly On The Shore.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (23) - A Hundred Struggle And Drown I... - QuotesA Hundred Struggle And Drown In The Breakers. One Discovers The New World. But Rather, Ten Times Rather, Die In The Surf, Heralding The Way To That New World, Than Stand Idly On The Shore.

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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 Quotes (24) - The Very Elements Of What Cons... - QuotesThe 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.

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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 Quotes (24) - The Very Elements Of What Cons... - QuotesThe 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.

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The Most Important Practical Lesson That Can Be Given To Nurses Is To Teach Them What To Observe - How To Observe - What Symptoms Indicate Improvement - What The Reverse - Which Are Of Importance - Which Are Of None - Which Are The Evidence Of Neglect - And Of What Kind Of Neglect.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (26) - The Most Important Practical L... - QuotesThe Most Important Practical Lesson That Can Be Given To Nurses Is To Teach Them What To Observe - How To Observe - What Symptoms Indicate Improvement - What The Reverse - Which Are Of Importance - Which Are Of None - Which Are The Evidence Of Neglect - And Of What Kind Of Neglect.

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Why Do People Sit Up So Late, Or, More Rarely, Get Up So Early? Not Because The Day Is Not Long Enough, But Because They Have No Time In The Day To Themselves.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (27) - Why Do People Sit Up So Late, ... - QuotesWhy Do People Sit Up So Late, Or, More Rarely, Get Up So Early? Not Because The Day Is Not Long Enough, But Because They Have No Time In The Day To Themselves.

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Never Speak To An Invalid From Behind, Nor From The Door, Nor From Any Distance From Him, Nor When He Is Doing Anything. The Official Politeness Of Servants In These Things Is So Grateful To Invalids, That Many Prefer, Without Knowing Why, Having None But Servants About Them.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (28) - Never Speak To An Invalid From... - QuotesNever Speak To An Invalid From Behind, Nor From The Door, Nor From Any Distance From Him, Nor When He Is Doing Anything. The Official Politeness Of Servants In These Things Is So Grateful To Invalids, That Many Prefer, Without Knowing Why, Having None But Servants About Them.

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Do Not Meet Or Overtake A Patient Who Is Moving About In Order To Speak To Him Or To Give Him Any Message Or Letter. You Might Just As Well Give Him A Box On The Ear. I Have Seen A Patient Fall Flat On The Ground Who Was Standing When His Nurse Came Into The Room.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (29) - Do Not Meet Or Overtake A Pati... - QuotesDo Not Meet Or Overtake A Patient Who Is Moving About In Order To Speak To Him Or To Give Him Any Message Or Letter. You Might Just As Well Give Him A Box On The Ear. I Have Seen A Patient Fall Flat On The Ground Who Was Standing When His Nurse Came Into The Room.

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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.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (4) - It May Seem A Strange Principle... - QuotesIt 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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Were There None Who Were Discontented With What They Have, The World Would Never Reach Anything Better.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (3) - Were There None Who Were Discon... - QuotesWere There None Who Were Discontented With What They Have, The World Would Never Reach Anything Better.

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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.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (5) - So Never Lose An Opportunity Of... - QuotesSo 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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How Very Little Can Be Done Under The Spirit Of Fear.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (6) - How Very Little Can Be Done Und... - QuotesHow 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.

Florence Nightingale Quotes (7) - I Think One's Feelings Waste Th... - QuotesI 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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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 Quotes (9) - The World Is Put Back By The De... - QuotesThe 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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