black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Achievement Dreams Greatness Inspirational Motivational
The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Best Change Courage Honesty Reality Simplicity Wrong
The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Difficult Doubt Fear Heart Help Hesitant Way
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I’ll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Laughter Remember Smile Tears Yourself
All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Myself True
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Animal Food Live Man See Wild
I understood….that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Life Myself Represent Understand
We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Live Opportunity Ourselves Place Possible Quiet Thinking
Vices are simply overworked virtues.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Simplicity Vice Virtue Work
Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Beautiful Eyes Herself Thinking
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Best Goodness Job Oneself Work Hard
It does not so much matter what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Count Oneself Work
When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. … The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Easy Father Home Need Quick Weapon
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Attention Organization Pay Trouble
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Comfortable Home Journey Travel
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Education Live Object

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes