189 Quotes by Florence Nightingale

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

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.