Occupation: Statistician Birth: May 12, 1820 Death: August 13, 1910
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for w….
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better..
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results..
Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: ….
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse..
Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this rig….
If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed p….
Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty..
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him..
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place..
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates….
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear..
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful..
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smal….
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it..
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm..
Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives..
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances..
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards..
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are ….
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work..