Florence Nightingale Quotes & Sayings

12 most famous Florence Nightingale quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was a British activist who passed away on 13 August, 1910.

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

“So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.”

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

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

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

“She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.”

“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”

“Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.”

“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.”