Quotes from Florence Nightingale

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.

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.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

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.

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

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.