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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UPDATED May 14 ... and the winner is...

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

[sweetcee]

I am here for my patients

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

The sky's your limit when your heart is in it.

[trouss]

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

"I move at the speed of safety", when we are told told in a roundabout way to cut corners to squeeze in more tasks/patients/etc.

Also, where is nurse's week celebrated in the country? All the places I have worked for at least in the last decade only celebrate and acknowledge hospital week or healthcare week. At my current place, nurse's aren't allowed to even mention the word nurse's week because it's not including of everyone in the building who works in healthcare.

In case you're wondering, yes, they do celebrate Doctor's week in a very lavish way. Also, bosses day and etc.

[Ratched, Nurse]

Ain't nothing to it, but to do it!

This is for any day, but especially those days you're tired, overworked and overdue for some downtime.

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

Be your best self.

[Debbieabc123]

"Teamwork makes the dream work." I say this all the time at work! Appreciate your staff.

[Hga416]

"You're going to feel like quitting. You're going to struggle. You'll have days when you wonder, 'what's it all for?' You'll have days when people try to break you down, or challenge your intelligence, skills and right to be where you are. You'll have moments when you question your own abilities, and perhaps your sanity- but you'll rise. You'll rise because your strength as a nurse is not determined by one grade, one shift, one job- it's an ongoing job of learning, honor, and a chance to make even the smallest of differences in the lives of your patients."

[MayDas2018]

"Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people"- Dennis Prager

This quote to me is motivational because we get to practice "goodness" everyday as nurses and even though some shifts are really tough, as long as we can honestly say that we were kind, honest and good to those we cared for, we can be at peace with ourselves and wake up to another shift with as much enthusiasm as the day before.

[Kareegasee]

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

-Howard Thurman

[angiebelle440]

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

---------Maya Angelou

This quote has helped me immensely, especially after a rough shift full of unknowns. Beating yourself up can only go so far, and losing sleep doesn't help anyone.

[RNLIFE19]

Will it be easy? Nope! Worth it? Absolutely!

Author unknown.

I say this to myself EVERYDAY after my prayer.