Excellence is never an accident; it is the result of high intention and intelligent effort.
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
FN Florence NightingaleNurse & reformer · 1820–1910Cosa significa questa frase
Nightingale credits her achievement to refusing excuses — her own or anyone else's. Owning results fully is the engine of real progress.
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English founder of modern nursing whose work in the Crimean War and lifelong reforms turned care into a discipline — still quoted on resolve, duty, and refusing excuses.
This line is among the quotes by Florence Nightingale that readers return to on successo — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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