Florence Nightingale

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Florence Nightingale

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.

Florence Nightingale

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

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

Florence Nightingale

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

Florence Nightingale

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small.

Florence Nightingale

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

Florence Nightingale

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

Florence Nightingale

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

Florence Nightingale

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