Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work. Florence Nightingale More Quotes by Florence Nightingale More Quotes From Florence Nightingale I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning. Florence Nightingale morning men death Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself. Florence Nightingale important religious believe 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. Florence Nightingale smart excellence littles I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause. Florence Nightingale fighting military peace All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed. Florence Nightingale nursing taken years Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer Florence Nightingale complainers might christ 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 nursing health reality Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful. Florence Nightingale starting successful jobs There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions Florence Nightingale conditions disease For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion. Florence Nightingale useless nurse may Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Florence Nightingale moral passion three 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 breathing health science Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization Florence Nightingale nursing stage civilization Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table. Florence Nightingale causes tables law Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men. Florence Nightingale nursing doctors men The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light. Florence Nightingale nursing sick light I can stand out the war with any man. Florence Nightingale standing-out men war Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it. Florence Nightingale flower children fall Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning. Florence Nightingale birth may world In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut. Florence Nightingale bed sick inspirational
