Do you have any motivational nursing quotes?

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I saw a quote today on AllNurse that I would like to post around the workplace in "interesting" places, for example, on the back of the restroom stall door, over the pyxis, etc. The quote I saw was, "Be the type of nurse you want to work with." I Love that.

I want to be the anonymous morale builder and motivator at my workplace. So if anyone has some motivational, cute, humorous or thought-provoking quotes that I can print on a small card and leave around for others to find and be amused, comforted or otherwise built up by I would appreciate it.

I am especially looking for quotes that will make me and my co-workers proud of nursing and ourselves. I'm not interested in sarcasm or "woe is me" types of quotes. Even though some of those are hilarious and probably speak more to me. But right now my goal is to uplift.

Please help me motivate my friends and amazing coworkers and maybe we'll motivate each other as well.

Thanks in advance.

Specializes in Peds, School Nurse, clinical instructor.

My favorite quote

Be the change you wish to see in the world.....Gandhi

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

Ain't no time like quittin' time!!!!!

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Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. Newman, CardinalJ

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Jefferson, Thomas

A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at nightand do it again the next day. - Schweitzer, Albert

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. - Riley, Pat

"Courage is not the absence of fear, butrather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The bravemay not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

The key is to allow yourself to make the journey"..Ambrose Redmoon

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. Skinner, B

We did the best we could, with what we knew, And whenwe knew better, we did better. ---Maya Angelou

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From one of my nursing school instructors:

"The mind goes first"

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I used to post a "thought for the day" every day at summer camp with my Scout troop. Sometimes serious, sometimes silly. This was one of the all-time favorites:

"Beware of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

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"Nurses aren't in it for the income we're in it for the outcome"[/quote']

I like it

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Specializes in L&D, OR, ICU, Management, QA-UR, HHC.

I love all of these. I can't wait to start posting them around the unit in unexpected places. You never know when the right word can change a day, or more.

I love the community of nurses, and I'm proud to be one all these many years.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

"Act the way you want to feel" - Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Happier at Home

Basically, if you want to feel happier at work, start by acting happier at work!

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Specializes in Cath Lab, ICU's, Pediatric Critical Care.

While having a particular bad afternoon in the Cath Lab, and staff getting upset and angry at other staff, an Xray tech told me 'Don't get mad.....problem solve!'....I even use this at home!

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Specializes in Pain, critical care, administration, med.
I'm a huge fan of the Bombay Hospital Motto.

Bombay Hospital Motto

Adapted from a quotation of Mahatma Gandhi

A Patient is the most important person in our Hospital. He is not an interruption to our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our Hospital, he is part of it.

We are not doing him a favour by serving him, he is doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so.

I live that! That should be every hospitals motto!

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Specializes in Orthopedic, LTC, STR, Med-Surg, Tele.

"The capacity to watch over and guard the well-being of others is an important gift, and one that is learned with great difficulty. For it is one thing to see the situation that others are in, but it is quite another to care enough about them to want to help, and yet another to know what to do."

Judie Bopp

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"Keep em' alive till 6:45" " Cannot fix stupid" ( learned that when working in the ED).

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