Inspirational Quotes by Florence Nightingale
“Lo importante no es lo que nos hace el destino, sino lo que nosotros hacemos de él.”
topics: destino
“You do not want the effect of your good things to be, "How wonderful for a woman!" nor would you be deterred from good things, by hearing it said, "Yes, but she ought not to have done this, because it is not suitable for a woman." But you want to do the thing that is good, whether it is "suitable for a woman" or not. It does not make a thing good, that it is remarkable that a woman should have been able to do it. Neither does it make a thing bad, which would have been good had a man done it, that it has been done by a woman. Oh, leave these jargons, and go your way straight to God's work, in simplicity and singleness of heart.”
― Florence Nightingale ,
from Notes On Nursing
“It seems a commonly received idea among men and even among women themselves that it requires nothing but a disappointment in love, the want of an object, a general disgust, or incapacity for other things, to turn a woman into a good nurse. This reminds one of the parish where a stupid old man was set to be schoolmaster because he was "past keeping the pigs.”
― Florence Nightingale ,
from Notes On Nursing
“I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.”
“The martyr sacrifices herself entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she makes the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.”
topics: codependence
“Every woman, or at least almost every woman, in England has, at one time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid,—in other words, every woman is a nurse.”
“To attempt to keep a ward warm at the expense of making the sick repeatedly breathe their own hot, humid, putrescing atmosphere is a certain way to delay recovery or to destroy life.”
“I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”
“Women dream until they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their life, without which they could not have lived; those dreams go at last. All their plans and visions seem vanished, and they know not where; gone and they cannot recall them. And they are left without the food either of reality or of hope.”
― Florence Nightingale ,
from Cassandra
“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. ”
topics: Success
“She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. ”
topics: Health
“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 thing needed to women (and to men too) is these friendships without love between men and women. And if between married men and married women, all the better.”
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
“So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. ”
topics: Encouragement
“A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.”
“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”
“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”
“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. ”
topics: Character
“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”
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1820-1910
Florence Nightingale who came to be known as "The Lady with the Lamp", was a pioneering English nurse, writer and noted statistician.
Inspired by what she took as a Christian divine calling, experienced first in 1837 at Embley Park and later throughout her life, Florence announced her decision to enter nursing in 1845. Nightingale worked hard to educate herself in the art and science of nursing, in spite of opposition from her family and the restrictive societal code for affluent young English women.
She cared for people in poverty. In December 1844, she became the leading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmarie. This led to her active role in the reform of the Poor Laws, extending far beyond the provision of medical care.