Florence Nightingale Quotes

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

What cruel things war is. – Florence Nightingale

To understand God’s thoughts, one must study statistics. – Florence Nightingale

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. – Florence Nightingale

A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her ‘duties,’ forbid it. – Florence Nightingale

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. – Florence Nightingale

If a nurse declines to do these kinds of things for her patient, ‘because it is not her business,’ I should say that nursing was not her calling. – 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

Too little attention is paid to the essentials of health in the training of nurses. – Florence Nightingale

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

The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe… – Florence Nightingale

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. – Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Quotes part 2

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift – there is nothing small about it. – Florence Nightingale

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire if you will forget yourself. – Florence Nightingale

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

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed. – Florence Nightingale

It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs. – Florence Nightingale

Attention to the poor in health is a duty. – Florence Nightingale

Where there is no ventilation, there is no health. – Florence Nightingale

It is not the germ that does the damage, it is the terrain in which the germ is found that does the damage. – Florence Nightingale

Those who improve with age… embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. – Florence Nightingale

The connection between gambling and alcoholism is often questioned, but rarely explored. – Florence Nightingale

The world’s community has for more than a century been singularly free from epidemic pestilence. – Florence Nightingale

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. – Florence Nightingale

Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny. – Florence Nightingale

Most people have no plan for changing their adherence behavior even in the face of their impending demise. – Florence Nightingale

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. – Florence Nightingale

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. – Florence Nightingale

To understand God’s thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. – Florence Nightingale

Natural laws are not our enemies. – Florence Nightingale

The greater part of nursing consists in refraining from meddling. – Florence Nightingale

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. – Florence Nightingale

Never underestimate the healing power of a quiet moment in the garden. – Florence Nightingale

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

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. – Florence Nightingale

To be ‘in charge’ is certainly not only to carry out the proper measures yourself but to see that everyone else does so too. – Florence Nightingale

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. – Florence Nightingale

Will made us cockatrices of a feather. – Florence Nightingale

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. – Florence Nightingale

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible. – Florence Nightingale

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. – Florence Nightingale

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

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead. – Florence Nightingale

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius. – Florence Nightingale