An awesome quote can get some people through the day. We all know that as healthcare workers, we will take anything we can get! If you need some inspiration or just want to see some cool quotes for nurses, you’re in the right place!
We’ve compiled some of our favorites, so take a look and enjoy. Thanks so much for reading!
The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe – how to observe – what symptoms indicate improvement – what the reverse – which are of importance – which are of none – which are the evidence of neglect – and of what kind of neglect. – Florence Nightingale
The nurses’ job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It’s just a consequence of their environment. – Peter Capaldi
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! – Anne Frank
Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days. – George Michael
Thousands do benefit from love, support and comfort in their final chapter: I watched my dad slip away without pain as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen tracks played in a warm Marie Curie hospice, surrounded by doting nurses and his family. – Owen Jones
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha
Awesome Quotes for Nurses
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’ – Muhammad Ali
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. – Audrey Hepburn
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance. – Morgan Freeman
You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. – Steve Jobs
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Motivation
We can all use some motivation in our quotes for nurses!
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. – Og Mandino
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change. – Katharine Hepburn
Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn’t mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes. – Drew Barrymore
Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?
– Eliza Dushku
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
– Christopher McCandless
You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. – Maya Angelou
Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something. – Ralph Marston
Great Quotes for Nurses
I guess I could’ve been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale! – Aretha Franklin
For me, I always nurse out in public. It never crossed my mind, because I was taking care of my child, and I was living my life. We need to know as women that that is normal and great and beautiful and OK. And I want to be part of that conversation – not making anyone feel wrong if they don’t do it. – Carrie-Anne Moss
As a comic and as a nurse, it’s important to look calm on the surface when you’re absolutely crapping yourself inside. So, if someone is waving a machete at you, which has happened to me when I was a nurse, it’s important to make that person feel that you’re in control. – Jo Brand
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. – Michael Jackson
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. – Rosa Parks
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. – William James
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength. – Michael Jordan
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Funny is an attitude. – Flip Wilson
I’m cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally. – Dave Chappelle
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses. – Henry Ward Beecher
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