Alice Foote MacDougall

It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

— Alice Foote MacDougall

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

— Alice Foote MacDougall

When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.

— Alice Foote MacDougall

... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice,…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity,…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected,…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life,…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

— Alice Foote MacDougall

You the rich are no whit moreattractive or capable than youwho were poor and strugglinga few years back. But when before you…

— Alice Foote MacDougall