Florence Nightingale

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

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

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.

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

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.