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

- Florence Nightingale

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

- Florence Nightingale

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is…

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Florence Nightingale

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.

- Florence Nightingale

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 …

- Florence Nightingale

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

- 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 ma…

- Florence Nightingale

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

- Florence Nightingale