Favorite Motivational Quote

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Some days are tougher to get through than others. When a thermos of coffee won't do the trick, sometimes remembering a motivational quote and keeping it at the front of your mind helps! Provide your favorite motivational quote for this National Nurses Week contest and you'll be entered to win a $250 amazon.com gift card!

Winner will be announced May 16, 2017

UPDATE: May 19, 2017

The winner of the 2017 National Nurses Week Favorite Motivational Quote was from user JadedCPN whose favorite quote was:

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I apply this to my professional as well as my personal life.

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Specializes in Maternal/Child, ER, Med/Surg, Home Healt.

I have 8 hours left of this 12 hour shift. I can do anything for 8 hours!

Faith, hope and a littlepixie dust.

"It all started with a mouse." (meaning, the smallest things can become huge)

"Be the nurse you would want as a patient"

You didn't fire them. They fired themselves.

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." - George Washington Carver

This quote reminds me of the work that we do and how empathy serves as a useful tool, especially on those days where we may feel a little more stressed or rushed. So true!

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
Rejection is God's protection.

Especially after you've taken the NCLEX a few times.

May you be proud of the work you do, the person you are, and the difference you make!

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations

And this too shall end!

It is what it is. It was what it was. It will be what it will be. Don't stress it.

Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars!

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