I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

You ask me why I do not write something…. I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

To understand God’s thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.

It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs. Neither can do anything but remove obstructions; neither can cure; nature alone cures. Surgery removes the bullet out of the limb, which is an obstruction to cure, but nature heals the wound. So it is with medicine; the function of an organ becomes obstructed; medicine so far as we know, assists nature to remove the obstruction, but does nothing more. And what nursing has to do in either case, is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

Submitted By Jude Arko