Top 33 Alice Macdougall Quotes

#1. For the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#2. I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#3. Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

Arthur Henderson

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#4. You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#5. Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#6. Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

William Shakespeare

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#7. For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#8. A few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#9. One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#10. When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#11. Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#12. The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#13. Man's wisdom detracts from the glory of God, who is more honoured by the simplicity of the gospel, than luxuriance of wit.

Stephen Charnock

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#14. Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#15. This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.

Jorge Luis Borges

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#16. Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#17. It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown ... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#18. The future is now.

Nam June Paik

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#19. Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#20. The deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#21. Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#22. I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#23. Hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#24. Don't say giddy-up to your mouth before your head is hitched up.

Buddy Ebsen

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#25. That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#26. There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#27. Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#28. To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#29. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.

Max Ehrmann

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#30. We may hop when the gods say 'frog,' but we still get to choose how fast and how high.

Katherine Lampe

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#31. Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#32. Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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#33. In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

Alice Foote MacDougall

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