189 Quotes by Florence Nightingale

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

When shall we see a life full of steady enthusiasm, walking straight to its aim, flying home, as that bird is now, against the wind - with the calmness and the confidence of one who knows the laws of God and can apply them?

Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.