Florence Nightingale Quotes

When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

I feel passionate about nurses. I would do anything for nurses. Anything.

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

I normally hate books that have anything to do with medicine, thanks to my own background in nursing - FYI, almost everybody gets it wrong.

Doctors are not always right, but they are there to help.

I love to take care of people, which is why I went to nursing school.

Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

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.

It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help. And encourage the doctor within.

after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

The question isn't 'Do we worship?' The question is 'Who (or what) do we worship?'

I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.

God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful.

If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.

Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

The effectiveness of an inspired bishop, adviser, or teacher has very little to do with the outward trappings of power or an abundance of this world's goods. The leaders who have the most influence are usually those who set hearts afire with devotion to the truth, who make obedience to duty seem the essence of manhood, who transform some ordinary routine occurrence so that it becomes a vista where we see the person we aspire to be.