“ 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- Copy
- 832
“ Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her. ”
- Monica Dickens- Copy
- 1.4K
“ As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
- 880
“ Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the joy every day, while we are ‘just doing our jobs’. ”
- Christine Belle- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something, and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do. ”
- Edward Everett Hale- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription. ”
- Val Saintsbury- Copy
- 1.9K
“ They may forget your name but they will never forget how you made them feel. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
- 675
“ You’re going to be there when a lot of people are born, and when a lot of people die. In most every culture, such moments are regarded as sacred and private, made special by a divine presence. No one on Earth would be welcomed, but you’re personally invited. What an honor that is. ”
- Thom Dick- Copy
- 1.9K
“ You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome. ”
- Patch Adams- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the infant, the knowledge and confidence of the young mother, and a voice for those too weak to speak. ”
- Virginia Henderson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ When I think about all the patients and their loved ones that I have worked with over the years, I know most of them don’t remember me nor I them. But I do know that I gave a little piece of myself to each of them and they to me and those threads make up the beautiful tapestry in my mind that is my career in nursing. ”
- Donna Wilk Cardillo- Copy
- 3.1K
“ We cannot all do great things, only small things with great love. ”
- Mother Teresa- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge she possesses. ”
- Carolyn Jarvis- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well. being of the planet. ”
- Donna Wilk Cardillo- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions. ”
- Jamie Tworkowksi- Copy
- 2.8K
“ It is not how much you do but how much love you put in the doing. ”
- Mother Teresa- Copy
- 2.8K
“ As nurses we know suffering. We are fully aware of how precious each moment of life is. ”
- Patricia Bratianu- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
- 57
“ 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- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death. ”
- Christine Bell- Copy
- 2.2K
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