Nursing Quotes - Page 6

• Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.

  Peter Singer

  Engineering, Law, Medicine

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

  Florence Nightingale

  Happiness, Inspirational Life, Progress

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.13, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

  Florence Nightingale

  Sexy, Passion, Bed

  Florence Nightingale (2005). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

  Florence Nightingale

  Color, Said, Feels

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Retirement, Age

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Indolence of course is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Creative, Sitting, Losing

  "A lack of elegy" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2006.

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• Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.

  John Green

  Senior, Baby, Home

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• Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Life, Together, Passionate

  "Jane Eyre". Ch. 6. Book by Charlotte Bronte, 1847.

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• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Reality, Law

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.4

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• To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

  Michael Korda

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  "Success!" by Michael Korda, (p. 284), 1977.

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  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  Lucille Ball

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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

  Florence Nightingale

  Nurse, Expectations, Waiting

  Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

  Randy Castillo

  Eye, Angel, Nurse

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• The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented immigrants instead of legal citizens to avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; when communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids -- when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel. When all that's happening, the system just isn't working.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Barack Obama's Addresse to the National Council of La Raza, www.washingtonpost.com. July 15, 2008.

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Hate, Hatred, Unhappy

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, War, Blood

  Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

  Florence Nightingale

  God, Science, Understanding

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• I'm eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I'm nursing my daughter.

  Lily Aldridge

  Daughter, Mother, Vegetables

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Florence Nightingale

  Horse, Men, Doctors

  Notes on Nursing (1860)

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  The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

  Clara Barton

  Swings, Doors, Nurse

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• Charley talking to Cookie ‘'You know those women in nursing homes that have to be restrained around the clock because they mix up everyones medication and steal all the bedpans?'' ‘’Yes'' I said wondering what I was walking into ''That’s going to be you!'' She was probably right, if I live that long

  Darynda Jones

  Home, Talking, Long

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  It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

  Clara Barton

  Luxury, Nurse, Mind

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• It (nursing) comes more from care than study.

  Johanna Spyri

  Care, Study

  Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi”, p.114, Xist Publishing

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