Loretta young Inspirational Quotes

Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

I don't know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world.

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

We can't have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.

A beguiling lady doesn't take after the swarm. She is herself.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

I was a very wanting child.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

It's so important to look relaxed.

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.

Glamour is something no woman can be born with. It's not a gift at all. It's more of a concoction than anything else.

A charming woman is a busy woman.

There are no ugly ducklings.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

Success can't be forced.

Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.