Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (American Novelist)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She strongly supported women’s rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori Method of child rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country’s first adult education program and shaped literary tastes by serving as a member of the Book of the Month Club selection committee from 1925 to 1951.

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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Topics: Wishes, Wisdom, Adversity

What is life, but one long risk?
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Topics: Risk

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Topics: Age, Aging

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Topics: Goals, Carpe-diem, Aspirations

A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Topics: Health, Doctors

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