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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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest acts of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

- Leo Buscaglia

It is not how much we do, it how much love we put into the doing. Mother Teresa

Don't follow your dreams, chase them!

Full moons are dangerous in emergency rooms and bars.

Be like a duck... calm on the surface but paddling like heck underneath"

It is what it is. Gotta make it work! 😀

In regards to managing stress in a code blue situation:

"You can't really hurt 'em, 'cause they're already dead"

That was a gift to me from a very wonderful cardiologist who has passed on. I still hear his words in my head and it helps function with confidence.

Don't sweat the small stuff...if it has no eternal meaning, leave it be.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Specializes in ICU,CVICU.

Nursing is a 24 hr job. I always tell myself this little quote when I feel stressed at work when I have a million things to do.

"This too shall pass" for particularly stressful days

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