It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

— Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Quotes

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

— Florence Nightingale

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Never give nor take an excuse.

— Florence Nightingale

Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.

— Florence Nightingale

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.

— Florence Nightingale

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

— Florence Nightingale

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

— Florence Nightingale

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

— Florence Nightingale

There are no specific diseases only specific disease conditions.

— Florence Nightingale

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse.

— Florence Nightingale

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

— Florence Nightingale

Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be “men” and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

— Florence Nightingale

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

— Florence Nightingale

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

— Florence Nightingale

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

— Florence Nightingale

Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.

— Florence Nightingale

The ‘kingdom of heaven is within,’ indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

— Florence Nightingale

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

— Florence Nightingale

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

— Florence Nightingale

Passion, intellect, moral activity – these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

— Florence Nightingale

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

— Florence Nightingale

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