Nurses Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old nurses quotes, nurses sayings, and nurses proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Nurses don’t wait until October to celebrate Make a Difference Day, they make a difference every day! unknown
Every nurse was drawn to nursing because of a desire to care, to serve, or to help. Christina Feist-Heilmeier
Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we’re exhausted at the end of the day! Donna Wilk Cardillo
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Nurses are a unique kind. They have this insatiable need to care for others, which is both their biggest strength and fatal flaw. Dr. Jean Watson
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. Finley Peter Dunne
For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make. Florence Nightingale
I attribute my success to this; I never gave nor took any excuse. Florence Nightingale
Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse. Gary Veale
Remember: nurses are like icebergs. At any one time, you are only seeing what they are actually doing. Ian Miller
Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions. Jamie Tworkowski
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. Lois Capps
Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse. Gary Veale
Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions. Jamie Tworkowski
My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more. 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. Lois Capps
It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing. Mother Teresa
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. Myrtle Aydelotte
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. Orison Swett Marden
You treat a disease: You win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you win no matter the outcome. Patch Adams
You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome. Robin Williams
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. Simone De Beauvoir
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. The only way to do great work is to love what you do Steve Jobs
Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying. Steve Lope
A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope. Terri Guillemets
If love can’t cure it, nurses can. unknown
The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on. Virginia Henderson
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. William Shakespeare

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