Florence Nightingale

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

I am not a woman. I am a machine. I am a thinking machine, but I have no feelings.

The amount of good which a woman can do to a man is not by 'keeping house' for him, but by giving him a share in her own intellectual life.

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

I stand at the altar of the murdered men, and while I live, I fight their cause.

The greatest egotism is to be constantly thinking of one's own character.

Let us never consider ourselves as finished nurses... we must be learning all our lives.

I am sure I have a call, though I don't know for what service.

Oh, for some work in the world! It has been given to me to suffer and to serve.

The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe and how to observe.

Women have no sympathy against each other.

I am not a bit changed or improved, but I have a great many new things to say.

To understand God's thoughts, we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

Unnecessary noise is the cruelest absence of care that can be inflicted on the sick or well.

If a woman had the opportunity, she might do anything.

I can stand anything, provided it is not 'talk'.

I am a person of very strong feelings, and I am not a person who can express them.

The greatest sin is to do nothing.

The world is an inn where we are all travelling, and only some of us are getting to our destination.

I use the word 'cause' because I have a 'cause'.