"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. It would not do for a policeman."

- Florence Nightingale

"I did not think of going to give myself a position, but for the sake of common humanity."

- Florence Nightingale

"“Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.”"

- Florence Nightingale

"The world is put back by the death of everyone who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."

- Florence Nightingale

"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."

- Florence Nightingale