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Louisa May Alcott Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

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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

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

Not Quotes and Sayings

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau

I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Prejudice is a two-edged sword.
Like the steel sort of sword, it's very sharp, very useful,
and very dangerous if not properly mastered.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

I am not what happened to me,
I am what I choose to become.
- Carl Jung

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung

I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills

For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Jung

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus

Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau

We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela

The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie