Florence Nightingale

The craving for sympathy from others is a great weakness, for it makes us dependent upon them.

I have lived, and I have loved, and I have suffered, and I have learned. And I have done what I could.

I am a woman, and I have a woman's heart. But I have also a man's head, and I shall use it.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is that they are always in a muddle.

I am much afraid of God, but I am not afraid of anything else.

The lady with the lamp is a very pretty picture; but I am not a lady with a lamp. I am a ministering angel.

I am not a believer in women's rights, but I am a believer in women's work.

The nurses are all tipsy, and I am the only sober one.

I don't think I am a genius. I am only a plodder.

The greatest egotism is to complain of the world.

I am a woman of forty-three, and I have never had a day's illness in my life.

I can stand anything but being idle.

It is not what we add to the world, but what we take away from it that makes us great.

The best way to get things done is to stop talking and start doing.

I am not an angel, I am a woman, and I have a woman's weaknesses.

The greatest misfortune of mankind is that they do not know how to be happy.

I had a dream that I was a nurse, and I was very happy.

The greatest sin is to be useless.

I am not afraid of the difficulties, for I know that I can overcome them.

The world is not a place to be enjoyed, but a place to be improved.