Elizabeth Kenny
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.Collection: Wisdom
I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.Collection: Health
He who angers you conquers you.Collection: Anger
Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.
I came to America to teach my method - not to enter a research experiment.
'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'
The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science - that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.
In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.
I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.
If someone angers you, they control you.Collection: Ifs
Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.Collection: Memories
A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.Collection: Dust
I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.Collection: Attitude
His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.Collection: Irrelevance
I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.Collection: Moments
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.Collection: Girl
It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.Collection: Community
He looked at the book, took my name, and consulted his records. Then he informed me I had been lost at sea and was dead. Under the circumstances, he could not possibly give me any money... Even the fact that he was dealing with someone who had been dead for several days failed to awaken interest in his official heart.Collection: Book
My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.Collection: Mom
Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.Collection: Community
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.Collection: Art
O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.Collection: Sleep
The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.Collection: Doctors
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.Collection: Wisdom