Florence Nightingale Quotes

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

Feelings, Words, Themselves

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale

Success, Took, Gave

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.
Florence Nightingale

Selfish, Lazy, Rather

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.
Florence Nightingale

Small, Wonderful, Lose

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

Sick, Harm, Hospital

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale

Fear, Done, Spirit

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale

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.
Florence Nightingale

Death, Sacrifice, Put

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Florence Nightingale

Women, Experience, Sympathy

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Florence Nightingale

Women, Woman, Same

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
Florence Nightingale

Said, Around, She

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

May, Strange, Sick

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: May 12, 1820

Died: August 13, 1910

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