Florence Nightingale

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

— Florence Nightingale

#inspirational #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

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

— Florence Nightingale

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

— Florence Nightingale

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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. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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

— Florence Nightingale

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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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

— Florence Nightingale

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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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