Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Alice Foote MacDougall

Quote by Alice Foote MacDougall

Author

Alice Foote MacDougall

Alice Foote MacDougall, a mysterious figure who lived from 1867 to 1945. Her profession and category are currently unknown, but her life and achievements may have had some impact on later generations. more

You May Also Like

“... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business and of life, produces more shipwrecks and heartaches than any other part of our mental make-up.”

“Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.”