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Famous Florence Nightingale Quotes
Source: Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries
Source: Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes
“Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.”
Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
“I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...”
Source: Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England
“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.”
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”
Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
“The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.”
Source: Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
“Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”
Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
“I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.”
Source: Florence Nightingale to her Nurses: A Selection from Miss Nightingale's Addresses to Probationers and Nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital