Want Quotes by Louisa May Alcott

18 Want quotes by Louisa May Alcott

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Alcott’s perspective on want is grounded in the domestic and the moral, offering gentle guidance that still echoes today. Her observations feel like a warm conversation about what truly drives us.

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We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

Louisa May Alcott

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I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing…

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Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

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I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

Louisa May Alcott

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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

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“it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants,”

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We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

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I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

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But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put…

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Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to…

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Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many…

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I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write…

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We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to…

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In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally…

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If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe…

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Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it…

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I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that…

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People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

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Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

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“…the child's heart bled when it was broken.”

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“She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl…

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“I read somewhere that every inch of rope used in the British Navy has a strand of red in it, so that wherever a…

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“Chance words spoken in kindness often help amazingly; and that's what old people are here for -- else their experience is of little use.”

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“Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.”

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Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill…

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But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

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“I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here…

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“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…

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“ "I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the world within." ”

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

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