Florence Nightingale Biography
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Florence Nightingale Famous Quotes

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

~ Florence Nightingale

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

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

~ 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

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

~ 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

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

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

~ 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.

~ Florence Nightingale

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

~ Florence Nightingale

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

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Biography

Florence Nightingale Famous Quotes