quote for the day!

hi guys I would like to share to you a quote every day.

today's quote: "well done is better that well said" - B.Franklin

cougarnurse wrote:Thanks, amy, and a good idea on your part.

thanks cougarnurse!

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
- Helen Hayes

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter Drucker

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
- William Ellery Channing

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
- Josh Billings

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience - Clarence Day

To change what you get you must change who you are. – Vernon Howard

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

I love it! Thanks.

“To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through; is to be a nurse.”
― Rawsi Williams

"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 is to be a nurse."
- Rawsi Williams

"One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it." --Sidney Howard

"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

“It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she was losing her father all over again. Every patient lost under her care was a little piece of death she would carry around with her until the end of her own life. But the alternative seemed so unfeeling. Tina and the other nurses could crack jokes and banter back and forth about contestants on American Idol before the body of a deceased patient was even cold. It was a coping mechanism, she knew, but not necessarily one she thought she would ever adopt. There had to be something in between. Olive had been called a bleeding heart before, but her heart no longer had the same plasticity and tenderness—it was scarred and worn beyond repair”
― Andrea Lochen, The Repeat Year

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.... ~William Osler

...For having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.”
― Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale

When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours. ~Author Unknown

Nurses - one of the few blessings of being ill. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar


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“Find current LPN programs in Arkansas. See our list of accredited Arkansas LPN schools that offer LPN training classes.”
― Nursing Staff of the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stan

I like your quotes nurseamyg. Very sharp indeed. Where do you get them? Searches, books or what?

Always thank your nurse,
Sometimes the only one between you and a hearse.
~Carrie Latet

Mother Theresa: It is not how much you do but how much love you put in the doing.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.
Cass Canfield

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. -unknown

Elizabeth Kenny: Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

General Douglas MacArthur: A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

behold the turtle. he only makes progress we he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time...You try to walk in the light.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

“If you act like you've only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you've got all day, it will take fifteen minutes.”
― Monty Roberts

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Day is just a collection of hours.”
― Serj Tankian

Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world; choose the one who makes your world beautiful.

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time...You try to walk in the light.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me."
I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.”
― Antonio Porchia

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
― W.C. Fields

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
― Bette Midler

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
― Bette Midler

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Confucius

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
― Woody Allen

If I told you I’ve worked hard to get where I’m at, I’d be lying, because I have no idea where I am right now.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”
― Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
― Hayley Williams

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
― Winston Churchill

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
― Vince Lombardi

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Dalai Lama

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
― Criss Jami

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
― W.C. Fields

“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
― Dale Carnegie

“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice

“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.”
― Albert Einstein

If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
― Zig Ziglar

“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
― Amelia Earhart

"Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself."
― Soren Kierkegaard

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine the Great

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli

Love is only one of many passions.
Samuel Johnson

No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
George Jean Nathan

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
Dwight L. Moody

Talent works, genius creates.
Robert Schumann

Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
Cary Grant

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
Zig Ziglar

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens

Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian

Step by step and the thing is done.
Charles Atlas

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
James Agee

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spencer

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
Giacomo Casanova

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Dr. Seuss

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
George Halas

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
Francis Quarles

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow

Good words are worth much, and cost little.
George Herbert

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
Grace Paley

Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem


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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand


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The body is a sacred garment.
Martha Graham

To be is to do.
Immanuel Kant

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Desmond Tutu


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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
Louis Dudek

I came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius Caesar

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Dr. Seuss

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn

“As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.”
― Winston Churchill