How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
- Florence Nightingale Quote

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
- Florence Nightingale Quote

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
- Florence Nightingale Quote

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 Quote

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
- Florence Nightingale Quote

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
- Florence Nightingale Quote

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
- Florence Nightingale Quote

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
- Florence Nightingale Quote