Florence Nightingale

To be a good nurse, one must be a good woman.

The amount of good which a nurse can do depends upon the amount of good she can do without being seen.

The greatest sufferers are those who do not complain.

The true nurse, like the true physician, is a minister of God.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

The very first canon of nursing, the first and the last, is this: to keep the air within as pure as the air without.

The mission of a nurse is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick, merely by the fact of having a nurse who knows what she is about, is incalculable.

The greater the suffering, the greater the need for a nurse.

The true foundation of a hospital is the nurse.

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

The lamp is the symbol of the nurse, and the nurse is the symbol of the lamp.

The nurse must be a woman of truth.

The hospital should be a place of healing, not a place of death.

The nurse must have a clear head and a kind heart.

The work of a nurse is to observe, to report, and to carry out the physician's orders.

The nurse must be a woman of good character.

The hospital is a place where the sick are brought to be cured, not to be killed.

The nurse must be a woman of sound judgment.

The nurse must be a woman of good temper.