Alice Foote MacDougall Born : 1867 Died : 1945 Browse All Authors Top 35 quotes by Alice Foote MacDougall Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting. Alice Foote MacDougall lonely kindness success ... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up. Alice Foote MacDougall ignorance business roots The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid. Alice Foote MacDougall problem business mind Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how. Alice Foote MacDougall delight tyrants relax Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents. Alice Foote MacDougall agents advertising life One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential. Alice Foote MacDougall tradition essentials business It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success. Alice Foote MacDougall battle real men I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail. Alice Foote MacDougall dont-believe failing believe ... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy. Alice Foote MacDougall lonely success heart ... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind.... A new danger comes to your soul, and intolerance and impatience with those who are as you have been all but destroy that which you have taken such pains to build up. Not alone are there spiritual barriers between you and the friends that you have, but your business training has made your mind incisive. In the swift rush of business you have no time for small debates and petty dilemmas. Alice Foote MacDougall lonely business spiritual I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training. Alice Foote MacDougall business reading education You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich. Alice Foote MacDougall lonely success friendship In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal. Alice Foote MacDougall angel faith success Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty Alice Foote MacDougall hardship pain spiritual Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes. Alice Foote MacDougall mind success opportunity life
