I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took an excuse.The Life of Florence Nightingale, Sir Edward Cook, 1913
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Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) was a pioneering English nurse known for her work during the Crimean War. She is acclaimed for her efforts in significantly improving medical care and sanitation practices in hospitals, and is considered the founder of modern nursing.
1820–1910·lived 90 years
I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took an excuse.The Life of Florence Nightingale, Sir Edward Cook, 1913
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Selected Letters, p. 230, 1990
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, 1859
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, 1859
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