Great Nursing Quotes:

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

source: Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.291, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

topic: Art, Hard Work, Nursing, Fine Arts, Inspirational Nurse

As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Heart, Opportunity, Names, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

- Warren Beatty

topic: Nurse, Sometimes, Great Nursing

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

- Leo Buscaglia

source: "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Importunate, Nobody Cares

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

- William Osler

topic: Blessing, Nurse, Humanity, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

- Florence Nightingale

source: Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.122, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

topic: Nurse, Important, Lessons, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

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

- Clara Barton

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

Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

- Florence Nightingale

topic: Art, Nursing, Nurse, Fine Arts, Inspirational Nurse

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

- Robin Williams

source: "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.

topic: Philosophy, Winning, Guarantees, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: Nurses make a difference.

- Brittney Wilson

topic: Jobs, Mean, Nursing, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

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

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

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

topic: Communication, Nursing, Nurse, Medical Education, Inspirational Nurse

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

- Anatole France

source: Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiration And Motivation

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

- Dag Hammarskjold

source: "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.

topic: Nursing, Nurse, Important, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

- Elizabeth Kenny

topic: Nursing, Play, Nurse, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

- Orison Swett Marden

source: Orison Swett Marden (2015). “He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality”, p.37, e-artnow

topic: Hope, Powerful, Get Well Soon, Well Soon, Cancer And Hope

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

- Florence Nightingale

source: "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" by Frank McCourt and Erin Gruwell, (p. 410), 2007.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

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

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

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

source: "A Virginia Henderson Reader: Excellence in Nursing".

topic: Mother, Love Life, Suicidal, Young Mother, Hospitals

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 Tworkowski

source: Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.82, Penguin

topic: Hurt, Jobs, Nursing, Inspiring Nursing, Uncool

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

- Barack Obama

topic: Heart, America, Nurse, Great Nursing

Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Giving Up, Nursing, Miracle, Great Nursing

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

- Florence Nightingale

topic: Hero, Nurse, World, Daily Grind, Great Nursing