When down, when weary, when hurt, it takes strength to get up and experience everything all over again. But that’s exactly what nurses do. Even with intense pressures and seemingly endless shifts, they get things done. More than efficiency and productivity, that’s their unrivaled willpower talking, the refusal to give up because their passion, their calling, and their sense of duty and purpose are what matter the most.
However, nurses aren’t invincible. There are moments of extreme exhaustion, hopelessness and frustration. During times like this, it’s easy to forget what you’re made of. You tend to think of yourself small and weak. You aren’t. You’re big and you’re strong. If you’re having some moments of self-doubt because you’re overly worn out or just feeling aimless, we’ve compiled strong women quotes for nurses to remind you of how strong you can really be.
If you can dance and be free and be embarrassed, you can rule the world. – Amy Poehler
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. – Coco Chanel
Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. – Ava DuVernay
The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence. – Beyoncé Knowles
Women are the real architects of society. – Cher
Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes’, we have standards. – Marilyn Monroe
You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’. – Erin McKea
I encourage women to step up. Don’t wait for somebody to ask you. – Reese Witherspoon
Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes. – Nancy Pelosi
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves. – Shirley Chishol
A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. – Melinda Gate
I am a woman phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that’s me. – Maya Angelou
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. – Sheryl Sandberg
If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself. – Mindy Kaling
God appoints our graces to be NURSES to other men’s weaknesses. – Henry Ward Beecher
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore. – Lady Gaga
A nurse is one who opens the eyes of a newborn & gently closes the eyes of a dying man. It is indeed a high blessing to be first and last to witness the beginning and end of life.
A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman. – Melinda Gates
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
Nurses are a unique kind. They have this insatiable need to care for others, which is both their greatest strength and fatal flaw. – Dr. Jean Watson
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – Maya Angelou
When you’re a nurse, you know that everyday you will touch a life or a life will touch yours.
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. – Ella Fitzgerald
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt
You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe. – Leymah Gbowee
Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage. – Anaïs Nin
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. – Nora Ephron
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. – Margaret Thatcher
You can’t give up! If you give up, you’re like everybody else. – Chris Evert
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. – Jane Goodall
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead. – Beyonce
I’m always perpetually out of my comfort zone. – Tory Burch
All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time. – Julie Andrews
Look your best – who said love is blind? – Mae West
When you’re through changing, you’re through. – Martha Stewart
Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes. – Bette Midler
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel
Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they’re helping the company to be successful. – Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants. – Queen Latifah
Aging is not ‘lost youth,’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength. – Betty Friedan
You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you. – Katie Couric
Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else. – Angelina Jolie
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on Earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. – Susan B. Anthony
If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it – Erma Bombeck
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’. – Erma Bombeck
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. – Erma Bombeck
I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. – Madonna
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves. – Barbara Corcoran
I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes. – B. Smith
A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts. – Nancy Rathburn
The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole. – Jane Fonda
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. – Marie Curie
I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That’s exactly what I’ve done. I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. – Whoopi Goldberg
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. – Mother Teresa
The best protection any woman can have … is courage. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Save one life you’re a hero. Save 100 lives you’re a NURSE.
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. – Colette
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the ability to create, nurture, and transform. – Diane Mariechild
I have come to realize making yourself happy is most important. Never be ashamed of how you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion you want, and do what makes you happy. That’s my life motto. – Demi Lovato
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Sally Berger
Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you. – Hillary Clinton
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. – Gloria Steinem
Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice. – Helen Keller
