Quotes from Alice Foote MacDougall

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

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

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

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

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.

... 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.

To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.

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

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

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

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.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.