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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

“Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.”

World Giving Art Important Whole Political Social Results Depends Essentials Organization Practicals Whole World Administration Statistics Application

Author:Florence Nightingale

“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”

World Sacrifice Development Peculiar Nursing Conventionality

Book:Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale

Source: Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale

“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”

World Happiness Progress Inspirational Life Discontent 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

“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.”

World Certain Duty Hero Affair Convinced Nurse Heroism Nursing Grind Great Hero Great Nursing Daily Grind

Author:Florence Nightingale

“Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.”

World Way Dies Ten Shore New World Nursing Surf

Author:Florence Nightingale

“Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.”

World Doe Moral Activity Sketchy

Book:The cause

Source: The cause