Alice Foote MacDougall
Alice Foote MacDougall
pain ill-health advice
... 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.
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.
spiritual pain hardship
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
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.