Florence Nightingale

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

Florence Nightingale

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

Florence Nightingale

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

Florence Nightingale

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

Florence Nightingale

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

Florence Nightingale

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Florence Nightingale

Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

Florence Nightingale

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.

Florence Nightingale

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

Florence Nightingale

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

Florence Nightingale