![]() “Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.” “Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses….we must be learning all of our lives.” Florence Nightingale “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 “The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.” Florence Nightingale “Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.” Florence Nightingale “For the sick it is important to have the best.” Florence Nightingale “No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this – ‘devoted and obedient’.” Florence Nightingale “If a nurse declines to do these kinds of things for her patient, ‘because it is not her business’, I should say that nursing was not her calling.” Florence Nightingale “The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.” “Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.” Florence Nightingale If her face, too, so much the better.” Florence Nightingale “Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. ![]() “And what nursing has to do in either case, is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.” Florence Nightingale “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.” Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale Quotes on Nursing The world does nothing but sketch.” Florence Nightingale It is change, not destruction, which takes place.” Florence Nightingale “A human being does not cease to exist at death. “Being in charge is not how you can always do the right thing by yourself, but how you can provide for the right thing to always be done.” Florence Nightingale “Our first journey is to find that special place for us.” “The world is put back by the death of everyone who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.” Florence Nightingale “I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.” Florence Nightingale “Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.” Florence Nightingale “I am of certain convinced that 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 “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 The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.” Florence Nightingale “The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. “Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot.” Florence Nightingale, via A Call to Compassion: Taking God’s Unfailing Love to Your World “There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.” “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, via ons voice ![]() “Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.” Florence Nightingale, via ons voice “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” Florence Nightingale “How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” Florence Nightingale, via christians united for israel ![]() “Mankind must make heaven before we can ‘go to heaven’, in this world as in any other.” Florence Nightingale It is the want of interest in our life which produces it by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.” Florence Nightingale, VIA Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women’s Resistance from 600 B.C “By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. Life is a splendid gift – there is nothing small about it.” Florence Nightingale, VIA AMERICAN GEM SOCIETY
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