90 Best and Amazing Florence Nightingale Quotes | Beautiful Quotes | Sapphirequotes.in | 2022 |
BEST AND AMAZING FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE QUOTES | 2022 |
1) ”Never give nor take an excuse.”
2) ”The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.”
3) ”Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.”
4) ”May we hope that the day will come when every poor, sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.”
5) ”I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.”
6) ”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; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit?”
7) ”I have seen surgical “sisters,” women whose hands were worth to them two or three guineas a-week, down upon their knees scouring a room or hut, because they thought it otherwise not fit for their patients to go into.”
8) ”For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.”
9) ”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.”
10) ”I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.”
11) ”It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.”
12) ”Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take a breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.”
13) ”Never to allow a patient to be woken, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.”
14) ”Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”
15) ”The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, are obtained among the well and among the sick. The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of.”
16) ”Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.”
17) ”A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.”
18) ”You ask me why I do not write something…. I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.”
19) ”A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. Rather, ten times, die in the surf heralding the way to a new world, then stand idly on the shore.”
20) ”Ignite the mind’s spark to rise the sun in you.”
21) ”I use the word nursing for want of a better.”
22) ”There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.”
23) ”I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.”
24) ”When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind – with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?”
25) ”Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”
26) ”A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.”
27) ”Our first journey is to find that special place for us.”
28) ”Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.”
29) ”Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses….we must be learning all of our lives.”
30) ”Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backward.”
31) ”Unnecessary noise is the most cruel absence of care that can be inflicted on the sick or the well.”
32) ”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.”
33) ”I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.”
34) ”Remember my name – you’ll be screaming it later.”
35) ”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.”
36) ”The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”
37) ”God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.”
38) ”I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.”
39) ”Woman has nothing but her affections,–and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.”
40) ”Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.”
41) ”If you knew how unreasonably sick people suffer from reasonable causes of distress, you would take more pains about all these things.”
42) ”I did not think of going to give myself a position, but for the sake of common humanity.”
43) ”Never dispute with anybody who wishes to contradict you, says a most reasonable saint.”
44) ”Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.”
45) ”Mankind must make heaven before we can “go to heaven” (as the phrase is), in this world as in any other.”
46) ”To be a fellow worker with God is the highest aspiration of which we can conceive man capable.”
47) ”The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.”
48) ”People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.”
49) ”The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.”
50) ”It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.”
51) ”Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended … to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come … when every poor sick person will have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home.”
52) ”For the sick it is important to have the best.”
53) ”For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.”
54) ”Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. Remember he is face to face with his enemy all the time.”
55) ”Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are there.”
56) ”There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilization at which we have arrived.”
57) ”That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.”
58) ”It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?”
59) ”That “of His own good pleasure” He has ” predestined” any souls to eternal damnation.”
60) ”In it and in the other prayers of the Mystics there is scarcely a petition. There is never a word of the theory that God’s dealings with us are to show His “power”; still less of the theory.”
61) ”By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. 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.”
62) ”Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their ‘place’ to do – and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.”
63) ”The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sickbed.”
64) ”The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.”
65) ”What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.”
66) ”Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be ”men” and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.”
67) ”No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this – ‘devoted and obedient’. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.”
68) ”What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal.”
69) ”Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?”
70) ”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.”
71) ”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.”
72) ”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.”
73) ”Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.”
74) ”I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.”
75) ”Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”
76) ”She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.”
77) ”I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”
78) ”Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.”
79) ”There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.”
80) ”To understand God’s thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.”
81) ”Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.”
82) ”How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
83) ”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. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.”
84) ”Women dream until they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last. All their plans and visions seem vanished, and they know not where; gone and they cannot recall them. And they are left without the food either of reality or of hope.”
85) ”Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”
86) ”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.”
87) ”Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”
88) ”It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.”
89) ”Every woman, or at least almost every woman, in England has, at one time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid,—in other words, every woman is a nurse.”
90) ”I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.”
