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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"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."
"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 :)
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.
"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.
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."
Purple_Scrubs, BSN, RN
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"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."
"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