Florence Nightingale Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.

  Florence Nightingale

  Light, Break Through, Habit

  Florence Nightingale (1991). “Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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  Smart, Excellence, Littles

• Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

  Florence Nightingale

  Death, Science, Average

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.100, Barnes & Noble Publishing

• 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.

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  Nurse, Useless, May

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.160

• A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

  Florence Nightingale

  Average, Want, Habit

  Notes on Nursing Chapter XIII

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