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
competition satisfaction domestic-life
At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
vanity filling-up want
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
trying prudent be-careful
It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?
death morning men
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
nursing light air
The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.
nursing years law
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.
nursing air nurse
A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.
family thinking people
The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for- its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.
war men standing-out
I can stand out the war with any man.
spiritual men voice
Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more expressive of spiritual grandeur than anything I could have imagined. It makes the impression upon one that thousands of voices do, uniting in one unanimous simultaneous feeling of enthusiasm or emotion, which is said to overcome the strongest man.
helping my-family no-sympathy
I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.
nurse useless may
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.
taken nursing years
All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.
nursing should-have sick
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.