Top 29 Quotes by Florence Nightingale

About Florence Nightingale

These are some quotes by English author Florence Nightingale Activist, who lived between May 12, 1820 and August 13, 1910.

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.

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.

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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.

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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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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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.

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