189 Quotes by Florence Nightingale

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

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 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.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

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