Florence Nightingale Quotes

"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."
- Florence Nightingale
(Related: Feelings, Actions, Results, Waste, Words)

"I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have."
- Florence Nightingale
(Related: Women, Bed, English, Woman)

"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."
- Florence Nightingale
(Related: Success)

"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
- Florence Nightingale
(Related: Fear, Spirit)

"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
(Related: Death, Sacrifice, Development, Conventionality, Gifts, World)

"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."
- Florence Nightingale
(Related: Opportunity, Beginning)

"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."
- Florence Nightingale
(Related: Effect)

"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."
- Florence Nightingale
(Related: Experience, Women, Sympathy, Europe)

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."
- Florence Nightingale
(Related: World)

"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm."
- Florence Nightingale
(Related: First, Harm)

"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
(Related: Martyr)