Share Your Favorite Motivational Quote - WIN $250! Nurses Week Contest 2018

[Brian S.]

What is your favorite motivational quote that gets you through your day as a nurse? Share it with us and you could win one of two $250 gift cards for scrubs and stethoscopes retailer medelita.com!

Your favorite motivational quote can be fun, inspirational, zany - whatever you wish! If it's good, it could win of of this contest's two grand prizes!

Don't be afraid, though, if you don't win one of the grand prizes. You can still win one of our two runner-up prize packs containing the items shown below and MUCH MORE!

What are you waiting for? Let us know your favorite motivational quote and get that much closer to winning!

There are more contests, too...

• Fill in the Blank Contest
• National Nurses Week Cartoon Caption Contest (sponsored bu rukuku)
• Patients Say the Darnedest Things Contest (sponsored by relode)
• Create a Meme Contest (sponsored by Performance Health)
• Best Tips for Nurses Contest

Have fun, thanks to all of the nurses across the country and Happy National Nurses Week!!!

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As promised, the winners are posted below. Thanks for all of the awesome and creative entries!!! Feel free to share!

[Buckeye.nurse]

Here are a few serious motivational quotes that I love--

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." ~~Martin Luther King Jr.

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

~~Maya Angelou

"As it turns out, I haven't saved the world. I've had a hand in saving some lives and have, I hope, made small differences in the lives of many. Occasionally, patients express their gratitude. some send us cards, some leave us chocolate. But external validation, the adoration and accolades of others, can't sufficiently make my job feel worth it. My job is worth it because I go home, on most days, with the feeling that I've at least broken even--I've put back at least as much as I've withdrawn from the karmic bank. It's a blessing in my life that I've been given the opportunity to be useful in my corner of the world. Today, that's enough for me." ~~I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: true stories of becoming a nurse by Lee Gutkind

And a funny motivational quote!! "Always give 100%....unless you're giving blood."

[wondern, ASN]

QUOTE~Buckeye.nurse, "...Always give 100%....unless you're giving blood." :)

Now that's a great one to remember!

[Vismaya]

Even this will pass away.....

[OyWithThePoodles, RN]

"A cheerful heart is good medicine..." Proverbs 17:22

[kingm]

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

-Arnold Schwarzenegger

The difference between the general nurse and those that push through and do more

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Read more at: The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what... - Arnold Schwarzenegger - BrainyQuote

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Read more at: The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what... - Arnold Schwarzenegger - BrainyQuote

[Daisy Joyce]

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy.

Take joy!

Fra Giovanni Giocondo

[NurseCard, ADN]

"I'm your number one fan."

[wondern, ASN]

I'm #2.

[MarivicRN]

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. - Florence Nightingale

[usckatie]

"Don't patch the facade, repair the soul."

Meant more for self-motivation, but it's one that has stuck with me. I try to use it with patients by just attempting to make it a positive interaction with them (doesn't always work, but I try)

[mmutk, BSN, RN, EMT-I]

As an ER nurse I would tell my new nurses this....

Look for repeating themes and metaphors in your patient's life. listen to what lies beneath the client's symptoms. Listen to affect

rather than content. Their problems lie in the things not said, the silence in their sentences. Find that theme and fix it.

[js621d]

Just remember the mistakes you make yesterday are helping you make the right decisions today that you will be proud of tomorrow