Alice Foote MacDougall Quotes


"Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes."
- Alice Foote MacDougall
(Related: Life, Success, Opportunity, Mind, Open)

"I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail."
- Alice Foote MacDougall
(Related: Failure)

"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
(Related: Food, Life, Hardship, Pain, Poverty, Privacy, Spiritual)

"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."
- Alice Foote MacDougall
(Related: Success, May, Whim)