Quotes by Nurses

Sickness usually dominates the thoughts of a patient with cancer, but too much preoccupation with illness can have a destructive effect on the mind, and knowing what can happen frequently becomes self-fulfilling. Today, people who are ill will spend hours surfing the internet to find out all they can about their illness – but this isn’t always a good thing.
Jennifer Worth
Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.
Louisa May Alcott
Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!
Louisa May Alcott
Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.
Lillian Carter
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Margaret Sanger
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
Louisa May Alcott
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go you gotta go.
Lillian Carter
Economy prudence and a simple life are the sure masters of need and will often accomplish that which their opposites with a fortune at hand will fail to do.
Clara Barton
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do it is not perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them.
Louisa May Alcott
The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.
Margaret Sanger
When I saw something that needed doing I did it.
Nellie Cashman
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell And very hard the task I find Of governing it well.
Louisa May Alcott
Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.
Clara Barton
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.
Louisa May Alcott
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
Louisa May Alcott
The door that nobody else will go in at seems always to swing open widely for me.
Clara Barton
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
Florence Nightingale
She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort make friends everywhere and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
Louisa May Alcott
I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
Edith Cavell
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.
Lillian Carter
Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful old age will bring few regrets and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny
The door that nobody else will go in at seems always to swing open widely for me.
Clara Barton
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
Florence Nightingale
She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort make friends everywhere and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
Louisa May Alcott
I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
Edith Cavell
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.
Lillian Carter
Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful old age will bring few regrets and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence Nightingale
I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.
Louisa May Alcott
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott
Life is my college. May I graduate well and earn some honors!
Louisa May Alcott
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.
Clara Barton
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
Faye Wattleton
Love is a great beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them but I can look up and see the beauty believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
Clara Barton
I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more.
Louisa May Alcott
If I had one wish for my children it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
Lillian Carter
One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
My mother used to say "He who angers you conquers you."
Elizabeth Kenny
I know now that patriotism is not enough I must have no hatred and bitterness toward anyone.
Edith Cavell
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave something else happens.
Lillian Carter
Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.
Angela Barron McBride
A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.
Florence Nightingale
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country
Louisa May Alcott
Debate is masculine conversation is feminine.
Louisa May Alcott
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
Louisa May Alcott
Many can argue not many converse.
Louisa May Alcott
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 am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
Were there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale
Woman must not accept she must challenge.
Margaret Sanger