Florence Nightingale

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

The ultimate goal of nursing is to put the patient in the best possible condition for nature to act upon him.

The nurse must be a woman of truth and integrity.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed of asking questions.

Nursing is an art; and if it is to be made an art, it requires as exclusive a devotion, as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work.

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head: how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

The goal of nursing is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate, but the fact is that in nursing the patient is the real focus.

The human body is precisely like a telegraph station, with the difference that the wires are nerves.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift—there is nothing small about it.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

The statistics of disease and mortality are but the product of the ignorance of the sick and the unskillfulness of their attendants.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.

I never give advice unless asked.

The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is the same with nursing: the character of the nurse must be ascertained.

Women don't keep diaries in time of trouble.

Everything is a test.

The martyr, when the cause calls, cannot shrink from the consequences.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted and obedient'.

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