Elizabeth Kenny Quotes

#1. I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Elizabeth Kenny

#2. I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

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#5. My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

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#6. He who angers you conquers you.

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#7. It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

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#8. His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically ...

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I came to America to teach my method - not to enter a research experiment.

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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.

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#20. I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

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#21. If someone angers you, they control you.

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