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Florence Nightingale, a British nurse and statistician, is hailed as the founder of modern nursing. She was born on May 12, 1820, and died on August 13, 1910. Nightingale gained fame for her nursing work during the Crimean War, where she improved the conditions of military hospitals.

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Famous Florence Nightingale Quotes

“Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.”

Ifs World May This World Birth Productions Premature

Book:Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

Source: Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

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

Ifs World Turns Circumstances Organization Permit Reformers

Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“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.”

Ifs Art Made Hard Devotion Painter Preparation Nurse Exclusive Nursing Marble Sculptors Inspirational Nurse Inspirational Nursing Inspiring Nursing Nursing School Great Nursing Stethoscope

Book:Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.”

Ifs Thinking Girl Opportunity Wish Pride Ten Hearing Ashamed

Book:Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England

Source: Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England

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

Ifs Has Beens Might Christ Might Have Been Complainers

Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Hard Done Shows Would Be Ability Path Information Strange Ordinary If I Could

Author:Florence Nightingale

“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; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”

“People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.”

People Ifs Littles Persons Real Jesus Christ Prayer Feet Jesus Christ Bounds Imitation Formal Washing Presumption Imitating Trifling Who Jesus Is

Book:Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries

“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.”

Ifs Cold Bed Disease Sick Faults Patient Nursing

Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not