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  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.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

  Florence Nightingale

  Art, Nurse, Finest

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  I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

  Florence Nightingale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" by Frank McCourt and Erin Gruwell, (p. 410), 2007.

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• Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Play, Nurse, Training

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• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Life, Forgiveness, Hate

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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

  Florence Nightingale

  Nurse, Sick, Requirements

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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• I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Mother

  Said in 1977. "Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Susan Ratcliffe, p. 373, 2011.

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• God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Nurse, Grace

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.114

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• Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

  Lois Capps

  Communication, Nurse, Important

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• The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

  Florence Nightingale

  Light, Air, Suffering

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

  Florence Nightingale

  Sacrifice, Peculiar, Development

  Florence Nightingale (2017). “Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale”, p.201, Routledge

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• The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

  Florence Nightingale

  Tea, Get Better, Disease

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.53

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• I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mother, Country, Children

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• Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Veterans Day, Brother

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Wildside Press LLC

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• I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

  Debby Ryan

  Home, School, Volunteer

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• It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Nurse, Praise

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• Caring is the essence of nursing.

  Jean Watson

  Caring, Essence, Nurse

  Jean Watson (1999). “Nursing: Human Science and Human Care : a Theory of Nursing”, p.33, Jones & Bartlett Learning

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• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Light, Air

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.31, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  Ornette Coleman

  Book, Nurse, Sick

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• Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Giving Up, Miracle, Everyday

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.41, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

  Simone Weil

  Compassion, Listening, Affliction

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God: Translated by Emma Craufurd ; With an Introd. by Leslie A. Fiedler”

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• If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

  Florence Nightingale

  Sick, Bed, Disease

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Change, Inspiring

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