Other Quote by Florence Nightingale — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.”

“If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.”

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

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

“Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care. The death of each days life, sore labors bath. Balm of hurt minds, great natures second course. Chief nourisher in life's feast.”

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

“You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

“The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.”