QUOTES OF CLARA BARTON

“I have an almost hopeless feeling that our present system of government is beyond redemption, and that nothing short of revolution will effect its cure.”

“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”

“I live to serve my country, and it is my proudest privilege to do so.”

“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”

“The patriot blood of America is not confined to the brave hearts who have fought and died on battlefields.”

“The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.”

“Although commonplace in every day experience, a dozen eggs are nonetheless a miracle of nature.”

“I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay.”

“I have learned to know that a soldier’s life is one of the hardest and if not the most honorable profession that any man can follow.”

“The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee and the eyes of the newly blind.”

“The crisis of my life is past, and I am standing before an open door which leads to another path in life.”

“I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done.”

“Everybody’s business is nobody’s business, and nobody’s business is my business.” QUOTES IN HINDI AND ENGLISH

“I have an almost painful consciousness of my own limitations, as anyone else who has ever done anything worth doing must feel.”

“The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.”

“I must do something no one else has done, in a way no one else can do it.”

“The red cross is the sign of my mission, the badge of my profession, the symbol of my faith.”

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

“An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.”

“The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.”

“I have an almost complete disregard for precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done.”

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”

“I am thankful for the sacrifices of the brave and selfless men and women who have served in our armed forces throughout history,”