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Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC, DStJ (/ˈflɒrəns ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.

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

Done, Fear, Motivational, Spirit, Under, Women

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Average, Averages, Habit, Inveterate, Observing, Want

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Done, Excellence, Habit, Repeatedly, Smart

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Inspirational, Life, Live, Splendid, Women

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Air, Lowering, Nurse, Nursing, Room, Temperature

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.

Administration, Air, Diet, Inevitable, Light, Nursing

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.

Good, Health, Nursing, Reality

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

Job, Jobs, Starting, Successful

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

Believe, Important, Religion, Religious, Work

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

Fighting, Hand, Struggle, Till, Use, Wrestling

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Art, Backwards, Nursing, Progressive

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization

Civilization, Hospitals, Intermediate, Nursing, Stage

For the sick it is important to have the best.

Important, Science, Sick

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.

Conventionality, Death, Nursing, Peculiar, Sacrifice

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.

Make, Narrow, Narrower, Nursing, Sacrifice, Selfish

Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

Jesus, Man, Men, Passion, Passions, Women

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

Bodies, Higher, Physicians, School, Soul, Souls

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

Family, Help, Helping, My Family, No Sympathy, Sympathy

May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms, and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!

Joy, Joys, Leader, Nursing, Personally, Reforms

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

Europe, Large, No Sympathy, Sympathy

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