Louisa May Alcott: Doing

Louisa May Alcott was American novelist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Hope , Waiting , Patience

“I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue. You'll find that is true, Rose, when you know the world better.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

People , World , Fear , Feeling

“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.”

Louisa May Alcott
Books , Thinking , Dead

“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.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women (1868), Ch. 41 : Learning To Forget
Context: 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.

Women

“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.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Marmee March to Jo, in Ch. 8 : Jo Meets Apollyon
Little Women (1868)
Context: You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it. … I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. 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. … I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

Life , Hope , Feeling , Learning

“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Heart Touching , Back To Work , Love

“Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

World , Fashion

“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Variant: I want to do something splendid... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.
Source: Little Women

Dead

“If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Feeling

“I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.”

Louisa May Alcott
Books , Reading , Help

“Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Idea , Time

“I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

World , Family , Beauty , Thinking

“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.”

Louisa May Alcott book Jack and Jill: A Village Story

Source: Jack and Jill

Thinking

“Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Women , Men , Children , World

“We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.”

Louisa May Alcott book An Old-Fashioned Girl

Source: An Old-Fashioned Girl

Help

“I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.”

Louisa May Alcott book Rose in Bloom

Rose in Bloom (1876), Ch. 1 : Coming Home

Women , Men , Parting

“If I can do no more, 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

From a letter ("Louisa M. Alcott to the American Woman Suffrage Association", October 1885) in support of women's voting rights, quoted in Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, 1883-1900 (1902), p. 412.

Truth , Victory