Top 29 Quotes by Florence Nightingale

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

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.

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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.

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

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 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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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.

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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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.

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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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