Curated Quotations

Louisa May Alcott

Quotations

  • “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.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “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.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “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.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “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.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “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.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “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.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “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.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • “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.” -Louisa May Alcott

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  • 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. – Louisa May Alcott

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