Author: Florence Nightingale

Quotes

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

- Florence Nightingale

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

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

- Florence Nightingale

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Florence Nightingale

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

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

- Florence Nightingale

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