Browsing Topic Best Nursing Quotes

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will be reported and recorded in Cyberspace – The Internet being one conduit for that. Linking nurses and their information and knowledge across borders – around the world – will surely advance the profession of nursing much more rapidly in the next century

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

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Nature alone cures. … what nursing has to do … is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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

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.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

A baby nursing at a mother’s breast… is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

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.

The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

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

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

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

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

Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‘Free to be You and Me.’ Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

I’m not telling you it is going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.

There’s quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.

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.

You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey – the sacred incense of the drinking man.

The system isn’t working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented immigrants instead of legal citizens to avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; when communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids — when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel. When all that’s happening, the system just isn’t working.

In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional, and personal level.It was called ‘spousal impoverishment’ and it meant that for one person [to go into] a nursing home, the family [ ], could go near bankruptcy, and then they’d end up with a lien on the family farm or the home. And so I wanted to change that.

Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or on a golf course in winter, you are not going to wish you had spent more time at the office or making a sales call or watching a show. You will wish you had spent more time with your family.

and she’s a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it’s like medical school. so she’s obviously smart.