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.

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

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

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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

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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.

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.

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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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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.

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.

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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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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

Every 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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