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If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale God Service Work

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Christianity Mysticism

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

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Achievement Inspirational

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Everyday Heroes Heroism Life Practicality

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Creating Positive Change

One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Getting Going

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

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Medicine Sickness

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

Florence Nightingale Sacrifice World

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Sick Patient Fault

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

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Experience Sympathy Europe

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

Florence Nightingale Woman Farm Bed

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Wise Management Patient

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Life Service Woman

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

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Done Spirit Little

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Good Reality Sick

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

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Success Never Attribute
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