1. Mother Theresa: It is not how much you do but how much love you put in the doing.

2. Homer: The charity is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

3. Clara Barton: The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
4. Lynn Keegan: Nurses have come a long way in a few short decades. In the past our attention
focused on physical, mental and emotional healing. Now we talk of healing your life, healing the
environment and healing the planet.
5. Clara Barton: 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.
6. Clara Barton: 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.
7. Maya Angelou: They may forget your name but they will never forget how you made them feel.
8. Anatole France: To accomplish great things, you must not only act, but also dream, not only plan,
but also believe.
9. Benjamin Franklin: Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
10. Mark Twain: It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
11. Florence Nightingale: I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled
into actions which bring results.
12. Orison Swett Marden: There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so
powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
13. The Bible: A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
14. Dr. Carl Sagan: Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been
lost in all the wars in history.
15. Miguel de Cervantes: God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
16. Leon J. Suenes: Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them
come true.
17. Epictetus: First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
18. Aristotle: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
19. Robert Frost: The best way out is always through.
20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Knowing is not enough; we must apply .Willing is not enough; we
must do.
21. Washington Irving: There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of
power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of
overwhelming griefand unspeakable love.
22. Elizabeth Kenney: It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
23. Florence Nightingale: I attribute my success to this I never gave or took any excuse.
24. Dag Hammarskjold: Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a
major operation by a surgeon.
25. William Osler: The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking
a place beside the physician and the priest.
26. Val Saintsbury: Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a
prescription.
27. Sharon Hudacek: Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy nurses are
rarely short on caring.
28. Sara Moss-Wolfe: Nurses: one of the few blessings of being ill.
29. Anonymous: If love can't cure it, nurses can.
30. Carrie Latet: A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.
31. Stephen Ambrose: It would not be possible to praise nurses too highly.
32. Henry Ward Beecher: God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
33. Florence Nightingale: The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to
teach them what to observe
34. Rawsi Williams: 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
35. Lois Capps: 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.
36. Elizabeth Kenny: Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
37. Anonymous: Nurses may not be angels but they are the next best thing.
38. Gary Veale: Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse.
39. Carolyn Jarvis: The character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge she
possesses.

50. Florence Nightingale: 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.
51. Jean Watson: Caring is the essence of nursing.
52. Myrtle Aydelotte: 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.
53. Florence Nightingale: Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month,
every week, take my word for it we are going back.
54. Erin Pettengill: We often think of nursing as giving meds on time, checking an X-ray to see if the
doctor needs to be called, or taking an admission at 2:00 a.m. with a smile on our faces. Too often,
we forget all the other things that make our job what it truly is: caring and having a desire to make a
difference.
55. Christine Belle: Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the joy, everyday, while
we are "just doing our jobs."
56. Elizabeth Kenny: He who angers you conquers you.
57. Sally P. Karioth: A good doctor is one who'll say, 'I have no idea what's going on with this
patient. Come help me figure it out.'
58. Robert Skeist: I like when patients tell me that they understand their conditions and meds
better and that now they're optimistic about their health.
59. Henri Amiel: There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
60. Norman Cousins: Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
61. Bill Frist: America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical
technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no
reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
62. John Hutton: For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do,
with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a
pay system that has held them back both professionally as well as financially.
63. Lois Capps: Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of
nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.
64. Florence Nightingale: Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do
a patient more harm than any exertion.
65. Ovid: Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
66. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a
humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of
prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
67. James Bryce: Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for
its existence.