Louisa May Alcott Trying Quotations

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment," said Tempest with a bitter smile. Law and custom I know nothing of, public opinion I despise, and shame and fear I defy, for everyone has a right to be happy in their own way.

Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.

My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

I'll try to be what Father loves to call me, a 'little woman,' and not be rough and wild but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time…