Florence Nightingale Quotes

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

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

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

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

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

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

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

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

You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats.

One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.