Best Nursing Quotes

[Joe V]

I love to read great quotes that are related to nursing. One of the my favorite nursing quotes is:

Maya Angelou said:

"They may forget your name but they will never forget how you made them feel."

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[Purple_Scrubs, BSN, RN]

"love me when i least deserve it, because that's when i need it the most."

(swedish proverb)

"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."

florence nightingale

"you cannot educate a child who is not healthy, and you cannot keep a child healthy who is not educated."

~ jocelyn elders

former surgeon general

[BiohazardBetty]

Last semester one of my instructors said:

"Are nurses stubborn?! Why, yes! We have to prove to everybody that we can make it through 2 years of hell! Of course we're stubborn!" ...gotta love her :)

[leslie :-D]

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

Cass Canfield

sadly, some doctors and nurses, think the same.:imdbb:

Nurse Leslie

[AgentBeast, BSN, RN]

Do you want to talk to the DOCTOR in charge, or the NURSE who knows whats going on? - on one of my T-Shirts

[kimmie4476, ASN, RN]

The character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge she possesses."

~Jarvis, 1996

[shmsndr822]

Here are some great quotes about nursing that you would like:

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.

~ Myrtle Aydelotte.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

~ Richard Bach.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

~ David McCullough.

[Kunzieo]

My favorite "quote" -it's actually a poem, and I love it.

This Work...

Exhilarating

And exhausting

Drives me up a wall

And opens doors I never imagined

Lays bare a wide range of emotions

Yet leaves me feeling numb beyond belief

Provides tremendous satisfaction

And leaves me feeling profoundly helpless

Evokes genuine empathy

And provokes a fearsome intolerance within me

Puts me in touch with deep suffering

And points me toward greater wholeness

Brings me face to face with many poverties

And enriches me encounter by encounter

Renews my hope

And leaves me grasping for faith

Enables me to envision a future

But with no ability to control it

Breaks me apart emotionally

And breaks me open spiritually

Leaves me wounded

And heals me.

-Ken Kraybill

[Orion81RN]

nerdtonurse? said:

"When I wake up in the morning, I want alarm bells to go off in Hell and the Devil to snarl, 'Oh, crap, she's awake!'"

I love this. I want to write it down and look at it every day to remind myself to strive to be a better person and Christian.

Keep em coming. I woke up pretty depressed today. This thread has let loose some sweet tears, and let out some great laughs. Just what I needed in this moment.

[resumecpr]

Post # 3 : That's Patch Adams!!! Love it!

[DoGoodThenGo]

"Doctors don't keep you alive, I do"

Nurse: The True Story of Mary Benjamin, R.N.

[Certifiable, BSN, RN]

I used to say that my favourite quote was from Legally Blonde "exercise gives you endorphins, endorphins make you happy, happy people don't kill other people"----- BUT, only after seeing Patch Adams as a nursing student (the other 5 times it never registered) I now say my favourite quote is the same as yours ‎"You treat a disease: You win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you win. No matter the outcome."

[Bezoars]

My personal favorites are:

"7:08 always comes around" and "I can do anything for twelve hours"