Eleanor Porter Professions : Novelist Born : December 19, 1868 Died : May 21, 1920 Browse All Authors Top 21 quotes by Eleanor Porter It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? Eleanor Porter cat pet dog What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. Eleanor Porter encouragement real heart The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. Eleanor Porter heart beautiful character 'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some. Eleanor Porter eight ems father It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right. Eleanor Porter beginnings-and-endings given ends Be glad. Be good. Be brave. Eleanor Porter december be-good brave Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas Eleanor Porter pollyanna matter games I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one! Eleanor Porter week monday thinking ... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME. Eleanor Porter eight trouble want There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars. Eleanor Porter thoughtful men book You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too. Eleanor Porter sleep might night Just breathing isn't living! Eleanor Porter breathing The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room. Eleanor Porter light west book I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that. Eleanor Porter long-ago sound trying Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest. Eleanor Porter plates courses sides Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live. Eleanor Porter pollyanna aunt havens ... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it. Eleanor Porter hunting enough long It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard! Eleanor Porter lovely play fun My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. Eleanor Porter pollyanna childhood relationship One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried. Eleanor Porter tired husband mother Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
