37 Quotes by Elizabeth Kenny

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

I came to America to teach my method - not to enter a research experiment.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.