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Florence Nightingale , (1820 – 1910) was a British social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organized care for wounded soldiers. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of “The Lady with the Lamp” making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. Recent commentators have asserted Nightingale’s Crimean War achievements were exaggerated by media at the time, but critics agree on the importance of her later work in professionalizing nursing roles for women. In 1860, Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. It was the first secular nursing school in the world and is now part of King’s College London. In recognition of her pioneering work in nursing, the Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses, and the Florence Nightingale Medal , the highest international distinction a nurse can achieve, were named in her honor, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated on her birthday (May 12).
"Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it."
"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
"I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse."
"A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers while one discovers the new world. But ten times the number who die in the surf are those who stand idly on the shore."
"The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world madly whirls."
"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."
"Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them."
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- - - - - - -"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
"I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse."
"A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers while one discovers the new world. But ten times the number who die in the surf are those who stand idly on the shore."
"The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world madly whirls."
"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."
"Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them."