Florence Nightingale Quotes

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. - Florence Nightingale

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman. - Florence Nightingale

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. - Florence Nightingale

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement / they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men. - Florence Nightingale

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

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have. - Florence Nightingale

I can expect no sympathy or help from (my family). - Florence Nightingale

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. - Florence Nightingale

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization. - Florence Nightingale

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