International Nurses Day 2023: inspiring Quotes of Florence Nightingale, Founder of Modern Nursing

Florence worked as a nurse during the Crimean war in the year, 1853-1856. Visiting the wounded soldier at night, it earned the nickname, “ The Lady with the Lamp”

Quotes by Florence Nightingale

1. “Never give nor take an excuse.”

2. “There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.”

3. “A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.”

4. “Remember my name … you’ll be screaming it later.”

5. “A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. Rather, ten times, die in the surf heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.”

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

Quotes for Nursing students

1. “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.”

2. “A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.”

3. “Every nurse out to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.”

4. “For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.”

5. "No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this ‘devoted and obedient. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.”

Quotes on patient care

1. “For the sick, it is important to have the best.”

2. “To attempt to keep a ward warm at the expense of making the sick repeatedly breathe their own hot, humid, putrescine atmosphere is a certain way to delay recovery or to destroy life.”

3. “Unnecessary noise is the most cruel absence of care that can be inflicted on the sick or the well.”

4. “The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should DO THE SICK NO HARM.”

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