Nursing Quotes

"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."

Clara Barton

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

Florence Nightingale

"Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work."

Florence Nightingale

"Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses... we must be learning all of our lives."

Florence Nightingale

"You must never so much as think whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it."

Clara Barton

"The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery."

Virginia Henderson

"Nature alone cures... what nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him."

Florence Nightingale