QUOTES

1. "Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription." - Val
Saintsbury

2. "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

3. "Nurses are the heart of healthcare." - Donna Wilk Cardillo

4. "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." - Donna Wilk Cardillo

5. "As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul, and body of our patients,
their families, and ourselves. They may forget your name, but they will never forget how you
made them feel." - Maya Angelou

6. "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." - Florence Nightingale

7. "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

8. "Nursing is not just an art, it has a heart. Nursing is not just a science, but it has a
conscience." - Anonymous

9. "The character of the nurse is as important as the knowledge she possesses." - Carolyn Javis

10. "Nurses may not be angels, but they are the next best thing." - Anonymous