100 Entertaining & Inspiring Quotes for Nurses
Nursing can be a challenging profession, and whether you're a student or a seasoned veteran, sometimes you just need a little pick-me-up to help you keep going. Here are 100 quotes all about nursing, medicine and patient care that can help inspire you or make you laugh and make your day a little brighter.Inspiration and Motivation
Look to these quotes for inspiration and motivation to keep you going through even the most difficult day.
4. Lynn Keegan: Nurses have come a long way in a few short decades. In the past our attention focused on physical, mental and emotional healing. Now we talk of healing your life, healing the environment and healing the planet.
5. Clara Barton: I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
6. Clara Barton: I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
8. Anatole France: To accomplish great things, you must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
11. Florence Nightingale: I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
12. Orison Swett Marden: There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
14. Dr. Carl Sagan: Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
16. Leon J. Suenes: Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Knowing is not enough; we must apply .Willing is not enough; we must do.
21. Washington Irving: There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.
Leadership
As a nurse, you'll often need to work with others and maybe even lead them. These quotes provide tips and advice for being a great leader.24. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
25. General Douglas MacArthur: A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
26. John Quincy Adams: If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
27. Friedrich Nietzsche: To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
30. George S. Patton: Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
About Nurses
See what these great leaders and thinkers had to say about nurses in these quotes.
34. Dag Hammarskjold: Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
35. William Osler: The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
37. Sharon Hudacek: Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy… nurses are rarely short on caring.
39. Anonymous: If love can't cure it, nurses can.
43. Florence Nightingale: The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe
44. Rawsi Williams: To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through; is to be a nurse
45. Lois Capps: Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
47. Anonymous: Nurses may not be angels but they are the next best thing.
On Nursing
These quotes offer some insight into the profession of nursing.
50. Florence Nightingale: Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
52. Myrtle Aydelotte: Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.
53. Florence Nightingale: Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
54. Erin Pettengill: We often think of nursing as giving meds on time, checking an X-ray to see if the doctor needs to be called, or taking an admission at 2:00 a.m. with a smile on our faces. Too often, we forget all the other things that make our job what it truly is: caring and having a desire to make a difference.
55. Christine Belle: Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the joy, everyday, while we are "just doing our jobs."
On Compassion
These quotes will inspire you to be a more compassionate nurse.57. Georg Brandes: A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
59. Chogyam Trungpa: Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
61. Joseph Butler: Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
62. Simone Weil: Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
63. Albert Schweitzer: I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
64. Dalai Lama: If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
66. Simone de Beauvoir: One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
On Health and Medicine
These quotes deal with the larger health care and medical field.
67. Sally P. Karioth: A good doctor is one who'll say, 'I have no idea what's going on with this patient. Come help me figure it out.'
68. Robert Skeist: I like when patients tell me that they understand their conditions and meds better and that now they're optimistic about their health.
71. Bill Frist: America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
72. John Hutton: For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back – both professionally as well as financially.
73. Lois Capps: Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.
74. Florence Nightingale: Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
76. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
77. James Bryce: Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
Communication and People
Nursing is a career that requires you to work closely with people from all walks of life. Learn to better work with and speak to them with advice from these quotes.
79. Saint Basil: A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.
83. John Tillotson: A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.
86. George Bernard Shaw: The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
87. Anthony Robbins: To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
88. Anthony Robbins: The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
89. John Kotter: Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.
Funny
For those just in need for a good laugh, read through these quotes.
91. Anonymous: Nurses are I.V. Leaguers.
93. Cass Canfield: Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.
94. Florence Nightingale: No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this – 'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse.
95. Finley Peter Dunne: If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in – if you had a good nurse.
97. Warren Beatty: How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
98. Anonymous: Confucius say: Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.
100. Florence Nightingale: It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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