Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.
Florence NightingaleWe 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.
Florence NightingaleA nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
Florence NightingaleThe true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
Florence NightingaleApprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
Florence NightingaleSublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.
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