Alice Foote MacDougall
Alice Foote MacDougall
success lonely kindness
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.
friendship success lonely
You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.
spiritual lonely pain
... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas.
success lonely heart
... 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.
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.