Today, May 12, is International Nurses Day.
A day to show our gratitude for the kindness and help we have received when we are injured or sick.
A day for respect and to remind us how many nurses helped us and continue to help us and the people we love.
So in today’s post I want to share 90 of the sincere, grateful and inspiring quotes for Nursing Day.
I hope you will find something here to help you express your own gratitude.
And if you are a nurse, something that makes you feel more inspired and appreciated.
Inspiring quotes for nurses Day
“As a nurse we have the chance to cure the mind, soul, heart and body of our patients. They can forget your name, but they will never forget how you feel them.”
– Maya Angelou
“Let us never consider ourselves to be finished, nurses. We have to learn our entire life.”
– Florence Nightingale
“Every nurse was attracted by nursing because of a desire to take care of, serve or to help.”
-Christina Feist-Heilmeier
“The character of the nurse is just as important as the knowledge she has.”
– Carolyn Jarvis
“What you do makes a difference. And you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
– Jane Goodall
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
– William Shakespeare
“Be nice for everyone you meet, fighting a fight.”
– Plato
“I don’t tell you that it will be easy, I tell you it will be worth it.”
– Art Williams
“You treat a disease: you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee that you win … regardless of the outcome.”
– Robin Williams (from the film patch Adams)
“Never give up anyone. Wonders happen every day.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, despite everything we go through; that is to be a nurse.”
– Rawsi Williams
“It’s not how much you do, but how much love you do.”
– Mother Teresa
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“I write down my success: I never gave or taken an excuse.”
– Florence Nightingale
“Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, your calling is.”
– Aristotle
“Have a heart that never harder, a mood that is never in pollution, a touch that never hurts.”
– Charles Dickens
“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should not hurt the sick.”
– Florence Nightingale
“Let anyone ever come to you without being better and happier.”
– Mother Teresa
“Knowing is better than wondering, waking up is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats hell from never trying.”
-Meredith Gray (from the TV show Grey’s Anatomy)
“Nursing is an art: and if it has to be made an art, it requires an exclusive dedication that is so hard a preparation as the work of the painter or sculptor.”
– Florence Nightingale
“When I think of all the patients and their loved ones with whom I have worked over the years, I know that most of them do not remember, nor do I. But I know that I have given a small part of myself to each of them, and they are the carpet that my career is in nursing.”
– Donna Wilk Cardillo
Quotes from nurses with genuine appreciation and respect
“Our fingerprints do not fade from the lives we touch.”
– Judy Blume
“To know that even one life is more easily inhaled because you have lived, this was successful.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The doctors may have been mapped the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.”
– Jodi Picoult
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful dedicated people can change the world, it is indeed the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead
“Nothing is more for a grateful heart.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Being a nurse means holding all your own tears and starting with smiling on the faces of people.”
– Dana Basem
“There are always nurses, you take care of us from the earliest years. You take care of us in our happiest and most sad times. And for many you take care of us and our families at the end of our lives. Your dedication and professionalism are awesome.”
– Duchess Kate Middleton
“It would not be possible to praise nurses too high.”
– Stephen Ambrose
“Nurses spread comfort, compassion and caring without even a recipe.”
– Val Saintsbury
“The American nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.”
– Barack Obama
“Nurses are a unique species. They have this insatiable need to take care of others, which is both their greatest strength and fatal mistake.”
– Dr. Jean Watson
“A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.”
– Carrie Latet
“Constant attention by a good nurse can be just as important as an important operation by a surgeon.”
– Day Hammarskjold
“Don’t forget that nurses are like icebergs. At any time you only see what they actually do.”
– Ian Miller
“Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital.”
– Carrie Latet
“Bound to paperwork, short hands, sleep and energy … nurses are rarely short of care.”
– Sharon Hudacek
“Nurses – one of the few blessings of being sick.”
-Sara Moss-Wolfe
“The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of the lives of the suicidal, the leg of the ampute, the eyes of the new blind, a means of movement for the newborn, knowledge and trust for the young mother, a voice for people who are too weak to speak, and so on.”
– Virginia Henderson
“Nursing is one of the visual arts: I almost said ‘the best visual art’.
– Florence Nightingale
“Remember the one who planted the tree when eating fruit.”
– Vietnamese proverb
“For every new morning with its light, for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for love and friends, for everything that sends your goodness.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you want to find happiness, seek gratitude.”
– Steve Maraboli
“Every ignored blessing becomes a curse.”
– Paulo Coelho
“I think it’s good and praise it.”
– Alex Haley
“Develop an attitude of gratitude and thank you for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step to achieve something bigger and better than your current situation.”
– Brian Tracy
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
– Oscar Wilde
Funny Nurses Day Quotes
“Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.”
– Gerhard Kocher
“Only you know that doctors are here to diagnose, don’t heal. We heal.”
-Dedition Falco (from the TV show nurse Jackie)
“Not all angels have wings … some have scrubs.”
– Unknown
“If your scrubs are comfortable, your coffee is strong and your Monday is short.”
– Unknown
“Always thank your nurse! Sometimes they are the only ones between you and a hearse.”
– Warren Beatty
“Don’t forget, I am a nurse. You will have to say a lot to arouse myself.”
– Unknown
“I am a nurse. What is your super power?”
– Unknown
“Let’s be grateful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
– Mark Twain
“Shift Change is my favorite time of the day.”
– Unknown
“Nurse: the first person you see after you have said:” Hold my beer and watch this! “”
– Unknown
“I like to be a nurse, but I especially like scrubs. They are actually professional pajamas.”
– Unknown
“I came, I care, I was mapping.”
– Unknown
“Nurses cannot repair stupid … but we can numb it.”
– Unknown
“Treat the patient as a whole, not just the hole in the patient.”
– Unknown
“How can anyone hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they give you a enema.”
– Warren Beatty
Happy Nurses Day Quotes and Sayings
“Save a life, you are a hero. Save a hundred lives, you are a nurse.”
– Unknown
“Care is the essence of nursing.”
– Jean Watson
“A nurse is not what you are doing. It is what you are … I am a nurse. It is not what I do, it is what I am.”
– Unknown
“Sometimes I inspire my patients; they inspire me more often.”
– Unknown
“Which angels are for the sad, nurses for the sick.”
– Amit Kalantri
“Be the nurse you would like as a patient.”
– Unknown
“While we express our gratitude, we should never forget that the highest rating is not to express words, but to live by them.”
– John F. Kennedy
“You can’t do a friendliness too early, because you never know how quickly it will be too late.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never let the things you want, let you forget the things you have.”
– Unknown
“Gratitude can convert common days into Thanksgiving, routine jobs turn into joy and turn ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
– William Arthur Ward
“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”
– Bruce Wilkinson
“The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you get.”
– Robert Holden
“Gratitude is not only the greatest virtues, but the parent of everyone else.”
– Cicero
“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest but most powerful things that people can do for each other.”
– Randy Pausch
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
– Aesop
“Appreciation is something great. It makes what is excellent in others too.”
– Voltaire
Short nursing day quotes about kindness and gratitude in life
“A nurse is compassion in scrubs.”
– Lexie Saige
“I am a nurse because Miracle Worker is not an official title.”
– Unknown
“Nurses are the heart of health care.”
– Donna Wilk Cardillo
“It is important for the sick to have the best.”
– Florence Nightingale
“Care comes courageously.”
– Lao Tzu
“Be the nurse you want to work with.”
– Unknown
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
– Aesop
“Enjoy the little things, because one day you might look back and realize that they were the big things.”
– Robert Brault
“It’s not enough to be compassionate – you have to act.”
– The Dalai Lama
“I never dreamed about success – I worked for it.”
– Estée Lauder
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
– Lionel Hampton
“Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.”
– Unknown
Do you want more uplifting inspiration for your spring? Then view these uplifting May quotes, the beautiful May quotes here and also these with positive spring quitors and this message with short spring quits.