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Clara Barton Quotes:

Clara Barton quotes

Ocupation: Nursing

Life: December 25, 1821 - April 12, 1912

Birthday: December 25

Death: April 12

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The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

Topics: Swings, Doors, Nurse, Inspirational Nurse, Red Cross

Quotation Clara Barton I may be compelled to face danger but never fear Quotes

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.

Topics: Success, Past, Nurse, Closed Mind, Inspiring Nursing

Quotation Clara Barton You must never so much think as whether you like Quotes

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

Topics: Luxury, Mind, Done

Quotation Clara Barton It irritates me to be told how things have always Quotes

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

Topics: Men, May, Pay, American Red Cross

Quotation Clara Barton The door that nobody else will go in at seems Quotes

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.

Topics: Selfish, Evil, Suffering, Human Suffering, Reform Movements

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.

Topics: Military, War, Fighting, Inspirational Nurse, Compelled

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.

Topics: Simple, Hands, Opposites

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Topics: Father, Blood, Patriotism

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

Topics: Nursing, Thinking, Needs

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Topics: Teaching, Discipline, Tests, American Red Cross

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

Topics: Wise, War, Preparation

Let me go, let me go.

Topics: Let Me Go, Last Words, Let Me

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Topics: Fighting, Soldier

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Topics: Soldier, Doe, Coats, Dodging Bullets

What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Topics: Country, Father, War

People should not say that this or that is not worth learning, giving as their reason that it will not be put to use. They can no more know what information they will need in the future than they will know the weather two hundred years from today.

Topics: Years, Weather, Two

My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.

Topics: Home, Writing, Men, Wisps, Open Fields

What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

Topics: War, Army, Cities, Widowhood, Orphanage

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Topics: Unique, American Red Cross

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Topics: Strong, Waiting, Soldier, American Red Cross

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

Topics: Men, Blood, Feeding, Fainting

If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.

Topics: War, Rain, Heart, Toiling

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Topics: Cutting, Arms, Balls

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

Topics: Writing, Biographies, Ill, My Biography, American Red Cross

I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

Topics: Usual, Accomplished

Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.

Topics: Offering, Hands, Hands Up

The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.

Topics: Country, Organization, Humanity, Instantaneous, Red Cross

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Topics: Growth, Relief, Frost, Shrubs, Red Cross

I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.

Topics: Failure, Humble, Humility, Upbraid

If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women's subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.

Topics: Brother, Men, Law

I founded the American Red Cross.

Topics: Red, Crosses, American Red Cross, Red Cross

I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. 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.

Topics: War, Sleep, Fighting

I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.

Topics: Pleasure Seeking

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