Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRCwas a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 May 1820
CityFlorence, Italy
dream struggle lasts
Women dream till 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.
average want habit
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
might christ complainers
Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
names remember
Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later.
jobs successful starting
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
night praying drink
The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.
nursing color said
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
nursing opportunity nurse
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.
cat florence-nightingale bismarck
Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.
party mean nursing
The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
suffering doctrine god-love
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
school passion excited
No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.
giving done information
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.
girl pride opportunity
A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.