Florence Nightingale

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it.

I have lived and learned and am still learning.

If a nurse declines to do these kinds of things for herself, she is not fit to be a nurse.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a mad dream outside.

Rather, let us use our lives for the good of all.

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

A man who is a man, and not a woman, will not be a good nurse.

The world is not a playground, but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.

The nurse must be a woman of truth in word and deed.

The kingdom of heaven is within, but we must work for it.

No system of training can be considered complete that does not include the training of the moral as well as the intellectual and physical powers.

The only way to learn is by doing.

A woman, however, who is a woman, will not be a good nurse.

The true nurse is one who is a good observer.

I am of the opinion that the greater part of the mischief in the world arises from the want of an accurate knowledge of the facts.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has had the 'courage to be an original.'

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English officers, and I have never been so much as asked to marry one of them.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital, that it should do the sick no harm.

People say, 'How can you live in such a place?' I say, 'How can you live in any other?'

The amount of good which a man can do in this world is limited by the amount of evil which he can tolerate.