Quotes on Inspirational Nursing

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

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 going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

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

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 what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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

As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.

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

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

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