Louisa May Alcott Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Louisa May Alcott
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
Not Sayings
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi 
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Swedish Proverb
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to
bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
Do not let your fire go out.
- Ayn Rand
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
Count your blessings - not your troubles.
- Dale Carnegie
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
Success is a journey, not a destination.
- Ben Sweetland
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
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