50 Motivational Nursing Quotes

50 Motivational Nursing Quotes
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
-Val Saintsbury
The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.
-Carolyn Jarvis
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.
-Cass Canfield
Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the job, everyday, while we are
“just doing our jobs”.
-Christine Belle
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a

surgeon.
-Dag Hammarskjold
Nurses are the heart of healthcare.
-Donna Wilk Cardillo
When I think about all the patients and their loved ones that I have worked with over
the years, I know most of them don‟t remember me nor I them, but I do know that I
gave a little piece of myself to each of them and they to me and those threads make
up the beautiful tapestry in my mind that is my career in nursing.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more

harm than any exertion.
-Florence Nightingale
Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.
-Gerhard Kocher
Nurses may not be angels, but they are the next best thing!
-Unknown
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When you‟re a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch
yours.
-Unknown
Save one life and you‟re a hero, save one hundred lives and you‟re a nurse.
-Unknown
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your
words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep you behavior positive
because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep you habits positive because your
habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become
your destiny.
-Mahatma Gandhi
People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but they will never forget
how you made them feel!
-Maya Angelou
It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing.
-Mother Theresa
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, that is to have
succeeded.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
To do what nobody else will do, in a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go
through: that is what it means to be a nurse.
-Rawsi Williams
A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.
-Terri Guillemets
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the
quality of our lives.
-Anthony Robbins
To accomplish great things, you must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but
also believe.

-Anatole France
I‟m not telling you it‟s going to be easy, I‟m telling you it‟s going to be worth it.
-Art Williams
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something,
and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
-Helen Keller
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place
beside the physician and the priest....
-William Osler
Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep, and energy... nurses are rarely short on
caring.
-Sharon Hudacek
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
-Elizabeth Kenny
You know you‟re a nurse if... you triage the laundry when at home: This pile needs
immediate attention, the pile can wait, this pile, with a little stain stick will be OK until
you get back to it.
Nurses — one of the few blessings of being ill.
-Sara Moss-Wolfe
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!
Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital.
-Carrie Latet

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.
-Clara Barton
How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is
when they're giving you an enema.
-Warren Beatty
It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.
-Stephen Ambrose
It's a beautiful thing when career and passion come together.
-Anonymous
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. And the only way to do great work is to love what
you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
-Steve Jobs
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.
-Lynn Keegan
To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go
through; that is to be a nurse.
– Rawsi Williams, BSN, RN
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
– Sister Elizabeth Kenny
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what
to observe.
– Florence Nightingale

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, PhD, RN, FAAN
Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse.
– Gary Veale, RN
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.
-Lynn Keegan
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.
-Clara Barton
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
Our job as Nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the joy, every day, while we
are „just doing our jobs.‟
-Christine Belle
To make a difference in someone‟s life, you don‟t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful or
perfect. You just have to care.
-Mandy Hale
You don‟t build a house without its foundation. You don‟t build a hospital without its
Nurses.
–Anonymous
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 Lopez

America‟s nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.
– President Barack Obama
The nurse who can smile when things go wrong is probably going off duty.
-Anonymous
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
– Martin H. Fischer
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
– Charles Dickens

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Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.

The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a

Nurses are the heart of healthcare.

-Donna Wilk Cardillo

-Donna Wilk Cardillo

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

Happy Nursing from NRSNG.com

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.

Happy Nursing from NRSNG.com

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

-Donna Wilk Cardillo

Nurses — one of the few blessings of being ill.

-Donna Wilk Cardillo

Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital.

Happy Nursing from NRSNG.com

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

It's a beautiful thing when career and passion come together.

– Rawsi Williams, BSN, RN

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

– Sister Elizabeth Kenny

Happy Nursing from NRSNG.com

– Myrtle Aydelotte, PhD, RN, FAAN

Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse.

–Dr. Jean Watson

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– President Barack Obama

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

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