Inspiring 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

Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.

- Myrtle Aydelotte

topic: Art, Taken, Nursing, Humanistic, Inspirational Nurse

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

- Confucius

topic: Nursing, Men, Nurse, Inspiring Nursing, Nursing School

The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

- Randy Castillo

topic: Angel, Eye, Nurse, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

- Marvin J. Ashton

topic: Wisdom, Heart, Nursing, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational 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

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

topic: Horse, Men, Doctors, 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

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

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Happy, Social Good, Loving Others

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

- Elizabeth Kenny

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

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

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

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

topic: Thinking, Eggs, Doctors, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

- Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

topic: Easy, Career Change, Worth It, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

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

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

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

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

- Warren Beatty

topic: Hate, Nursing, Giving, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

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

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

- Florence Nightingale

source: Florence Nightingale (1992). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

topic: Expectations, Waiting, Care, Medical Care, Inspirational Nurse

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

- Norman Cousins

source: Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

topic: Recovery, Drug, Care, 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

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

- Thomas Carlyle

topic: Inspirational, Hate, Nursing, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

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

- Florence Nightingale

source: Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale (1930). “Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England”

topic: Science, Nursing, Thinking, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.114

topic: Nursing, Men, Nurse, Inspiring Nursing

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