Louisa May Alcott Quotes

• I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Education, Fear, Knowledge

  Tags in Optimism

• It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Genius

• 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.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Tags in Ridicule, Reproach

• Love is a great beautifier

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Love

• 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.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Dream, Inspirational, Life

• Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Salvation

• He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Leadership

• What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Mom

• 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

  Topics in Age, Funny

• When in doubt give advice.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Advice

• When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole. in Little Women.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Advice

• I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Fear, Risk

• I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. [Character of Marmee in Little Women]

  Louisa May Alcott

  Topics in Anger

Louisa May Alcott (53)

Birth:	29th November, 1832
Death:	6th March, 1888
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist

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