"God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not s..." — Florence Nightingale

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

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.