Popular Nursing Quotations Students And Children:
Look to these quotes for inspiration and motivation to keep you going through even the most difficult day.
- It is not how much you do but how much love you put in the doing. ~ Mother Theresa
- The charity is a trifle to us can be precious to others. ~ Homer
- The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. ~ Clara Barton
- Nurses have come a long way in a few short decades. In the past our attention focused on physical, mental and emotional healing. Now we talk of healing your life, healing the environment and healing the planet. ~ Lynn Keegan
- 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 have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. ~ Clara Barton
- They may forget your name but they will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou
- To accomplish great things, you must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. ~ Anatole France
- Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. ~ Mark Twain
- I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. ~ Florence Nightingale
- There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. ~ Orison Swett Marden
- A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. ~ The Bible
- Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. ~ Carl Sagan
- God who sends the wound sends the medicine. ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. ~ Leon J. Suenes
- First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ~ Epictetus
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. ~ Aristotle
- The best way out is always through. ~ Robert Frost
- Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love. ~ Washington Irving
- It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. ~ Elizabeth Kenney
- I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse. ~ Florence Nightingale
- Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ~ Dag Hammarskjold
- The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. ~ William Osler
- Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription. ~ Val Saintsbury
- Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy… nurses are rarely short on caring. ~ Sharon Hudacek
- Nurses: one of the few blessings of being ill. ~ Sara Moss-Wolfe
- If love can’t cure it, nurses can. ~ Anonymous
- A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope. ~ Carrie Latet
- It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly. ~ Stephen Ambrose
- God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe. ~ Florence Nightingale
- To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through; is to be a nurse. ~ Rawsi Williams
- Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health. ~ Lois Capps
- Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. ~ Elizabeth Kenny
- Nurses may not be angels but they are the next best thing. ~ Anonymous
- Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse. ~ Gary Veale
- The character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge she possesses. ~ Carolyn Jarvis
- 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; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. ~ Florence Nightingale
- Caring is the essence of nursing. ~ Jean Watson
- Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken. ~ Myrtle Aydelotte
- Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. ~ Florence Nightingale
- We often think of nursing as giving meds on time, checking an X-ray to see if the doctor needs to be called, or taking an admission at 2:00 a.m. with a smile on our faces. Too often, we forget all the other things that make our job what it truly is: caring and having a desire to make a difference. ~ Erin Pettengill
- Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the joy, everyday, while we are “just doing our jobs.” ~ Christine Belle
- He who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny
- Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. ~ Gerhard Kocher
- Nurses are I.V. Leaguers. ~ Anonymous
- After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. ~ W.C. Fields
- Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell. ~ Cass Canfield
- No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this – ‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. ~ Florence Nightingale
- If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn’t make any difference which you called in – if you had a good nurse. ~ Finley Peter Dunne
- Treat the patient, not the X-ray. ~ James M. Hunter
- How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they’re giving you an enema. ~ Warren Beatty
- Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient. ~ Confucius
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. ~ W.H. Auden
- It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. ~ Florence Nightingale