I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. – Florence Nightingale
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. – Florence Nightingale
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. – Florence Nightingale
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. – Florence Nightingale