Louisa May Alcott Quotes

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Sympathy is a sweet thing. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Sympathy is a sweet thing.
— Louisa May Alcott Little Men

sympathy

Love is a great beautifier. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Love is a great beautifier.

love

A house needs a grandma in it. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
A house needs a grandma in it.
— Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals

grandparents

It takes two flints to make a fire. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
It takes two flints to make a fire.

arguments

I like good, strong words, that mean something. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
I like good, strong words, that mean something.

words

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up.
— Louisa May Alcott Jo’s Boys

fame

Life is my college.  May I graduate well, and earn some honors! - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Life is my college.  May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
— Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals

life

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

self-reliance learning

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
— Louisa May Alcott
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
— Louisa May Alcott Louisa May

work

I...resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake a living out of her. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
I...resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
— Louisa May Alcott

fate

There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long.

Goodness talent

I am so full of my work, I can't stop to eat or sleep, or for anything but a daily run. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
I am so full of my work, I can't stop to eat or sleep, or for anything but a daily run.
— Louisa May Alcott

work

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
— Louisa May Alcott
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
— Louisa May Alcott Jo’s Boys

celebrity

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another! - Louisa May Alcott quote.
I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

heaven love

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
— Louisa May Alcott Jo’s Boys

talent

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
— Louisa May Alcott The Sunny Side

self-control

Father asked us what was God's noblest work.  Anna said men, but I said babies.  Men are often bad; babies never are. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work.  Anna said men, but I said babies.  Men are often bad; babies never are.
— Louisa May Alcott Her Life, Letters, and Journals

babies

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean.  They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean.  They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

saying no

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
— Louisa May Alcott Little Men

money

My definition of a philosopher is of a man in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
My definition of a philosopher is of a man in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
— Louisa May Alcott
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
— Louisa May Alcott
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon.  It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon.  It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
— Louisa May Alcott Little Men

Goodness

Work is wholesome. And there is plenty for every one; it keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Work is wholesome. And there is plenty for every one; it keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion.

work

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.  Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success, in spite of poverty. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.  Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success, in spite of poverty.

work & play

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. - Louisa May Alcott quote.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

modesty

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them: but I can look up, and see their beauty; believe in them, and follow where they lead.
— Louisa May Alcott Work: A Story of Experience

aspiration