Florence Nightingale

The nurse must be a woman of temperance.

The nurse must be a woman of humility.

The nurse must be a woman of wisdom.

The nurse must be a woman of understanding.

The nurse must be a woman of knowledge.

The nurse must be a woman of counsel.

The nurse must be a woman of fortitude.

The nurse must be a woman of piety.

The nurse must be a woman of fear of the Lord.

The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe—how to observe—what symptoms indicate improvement—what the reverse—which are of importance—which are slight.

The greater part of the mischief to which we are daily liable is caused by our own carelessness, or ignorance, or want of thought.

The world is put back by every woman who lives an incompetent life.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English officers, and I have never been touched.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick, merely by the way in which a room is aired, is incalculable.

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

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are unknown.

The most important thing in life is to know how to live it.

The first thing you learn in a hospital is that the patient is not a disease, but a person.

The symptoms of disease are not the disease itself, but the reactions of the body to the disease.

I am of the opinion that the greater part of the mischief to which we are daily liable is caused by our own carelessness, or ignorance, or want of thought.