What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
Eleanor PorterMy relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
Eleanor PorterYou lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
Eleanor PorterThere was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
Eleanor PorterIt isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.
Eleanor Porter'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some.
Eleanor PorterOh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas
Eleanor PorterI should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!
Eleanor PorterOh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
Eleanor PorterThe influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
Eleanor PorterIt's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
Eleanor PorterIt'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
Eleanor PorterI long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.
Eleanor Porter... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.
Eleanor PorterOne day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.
Eleanor Porter... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.
Eleanor Porter