189 Quotes by Florence Nightingale

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

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.

The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

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.

Remember my name – you’ll be screaming it later.

To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

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.