Nursing Sayings and Quotes

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

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. Donna Wilk Cardillo
Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse. Warren Beatty
Every nurse is angel with a key for healthy community! All in caring for patients is part of nursing soul! Aleksandar Radenovi
Patients deserve to be cared for competent, compassionate nurses. Renee Thompson
Nurses 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
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. Elizabeth Kenny
When a person decides to become a nurse, they make the most important decision of their lives. They choose to dedicate themselves to the care of others. Margaret Harvey
Bound by paperwork, short on hands, sleep and energy. Nurses are rarely short on caring. Sharon Hudacek
It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing. Joseph Conrad
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
Nurses are humans by birth and heroes by choice. Renee Thompson
Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. Florence Nightingale
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said the finest of Fine Arts. Florence Nightingale
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
Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription. Val Saintsbury
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. William Osler
Authentic service can be seen in the nurse who has nurtured herself, the healer who has been healed. It is the service we hear when the nurse can speak from her heart to the patient these simply and humble words, I am here. Let's heal together. Caryn Summers
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe. Florence Nightingale
We often think of nursing as giving meds on time, checking an X-ray to see if the doctor needs to be called, or taking an admission at 2:00 a.m. with a smile on our faces. Too often, we forget all the other things that make our job what it truly is—caring and having a desire to make a difference. Erin Pettengill
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. Donna Wilk Cardillo
small, metal pin / received at the pinning ceremony / medal of honor / certifies one as an official, licensed nurse, / kick-starts their career, / Shatana Brown
Being a nurse is to give your hands to serve and your heart to love. Hoda Kotb
LPN or RN / came after a long struggle / but it was worth it / for a profession very rewarding / the field of Nursing. Shatana Brown
Health care is about more than fighting disease and performing surgery. With an aging population, and with an overburdened healthcare system, the power of nursing is needed more than ever. American Nurses Foundation
Call bell rings that annoying sound / You sometimes think you can sit down / Your patient needs you, on goes your isolation gown. Teresa Nicastro
Work all night and watch the rising of the sun / Pt's finally asleep my shift finally ends / Life of a nurse working hard positive message I hope it sends / Life of a nurse not all fun and games / Thank goodness for friends to keep me sane. Teresa Nicastro
Don't want a test, I been through all of that / Nothing they can tell me I don't know / Don't want a priest, I've already made my peace / There's just one thing before I go / I want somebody saying, Show me where it hurts / Don't call a doctor, I want a nurse Dan Weir
And I wonder if you feel this gift / If you have to work a thirty-six-hour shift / But I wonder now when you'll understand / When the woman in white comes to take your hand / And you put your heart, and I think you know / That a nurse's life is full of woe. Stephen William Bragg
Nurses are, also, much more than a soothing hand or a friend in need. They are. increasingly, technocrats, specialists, and experts in their work. Roy Lilley
Nurses see us at our lowest and highest. Frightened and euphoric. Roy Lilley