Louisa May Alcott
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.Collection: Faith
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.Collection: Time
Love is a great beautifier.Collection: Great
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.Collection: Beauty
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.Collection: Power
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.Collection: Money
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.Collection: Learning
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.Collection: Learning
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.Collection: Age
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.Collection: Power
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?Collection: Mom
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.Collection: Learning
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.Collection: Great
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.Collection: Power
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
It takes two flints to make a fire.
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.Collection: Life
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.Collection: Happiness
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you canCollection: Book
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.Collection: Determined
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.Collection: Lovely
Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.Collection: Thinking
Where the heart is the mind works best.Collection: Heart
Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.Collection: Graduates
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little WomenCollection: Girl
Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.Collection: Lying
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.Collection: Book
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.Collection: Hands
I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.Collection: Beautiful
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.Collection: Sweet
Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.Collection: Cheerfulness
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.Collection: Book
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.Collection: Strong
I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.Collection: Adventure
...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.Collection: Gratitude
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.Collection: Gun
Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.Collection: Life