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Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“There is good in everything, if only we look for it.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
Tagged: Perspective, Inspirational, Positivity
“Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ingalls
Tagged: Perception
“He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy
Tagged: Training, Teaching, animal, gentle, Patience
“So to the end when life’s dim shadows fall, Love will be found the sweetest song of all.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, These Happy Golden Year
Tagged: End, shadow, Love, Song
“There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues
Tagged: plan, Work, Earning
“Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods
Tagged: Time, Year, Appreciate Life
“These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter
Tagged: Progress, Innovate, Dependence
“There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy
Tagged: Time, Wasted Time, Life
“The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy
Tagged: Candle, Darkness
“Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter
Tagged: Politicians, Pleasure, Deception
“Never bet your money on another man's game.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy
Tagged: Money, Bet, Gambling
“Life on a farm as elsewhere is just what we make it...”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
Tagged: Responsibility
“A farmer depends on himself, and the land and the weather. If you're a farmer, you raise what you eat, you raise what you wear, and you keep warm with wood out of your own timber. You work hard, but you work as you please, and no man can tell you to go or come. You'll be free and independent, son, on a farm.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy
Tagged: Farmer's Life, Farmer, Land, Work, Independence, Freedom
“Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught, instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which are likely to be just as good as any other person's.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Before the Prairie: The Small Farm
Tagged: Learning, Dependence, Individuality
“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues
Tagged: Time, Blessings, grateful, Blessing, Everyday Life
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