Alice Foote MacDougall
Alice Foote MacDougall
depends keeping life mind opportunity success
Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
gratitude faces helpful
When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.
order orderliness economy
Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.
music sleep hours
a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.
life mean soul
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.
soul ease trouble
For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.
beautiful death mean
Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.
coffee men romance
There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.
business forever achievement
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.
success business struggle
Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.
dog fighting winning
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.
believe failing dont-believe
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
real men battle
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.
tyrants relax delight
Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.