Best 13 quotes of Eleanor Porter on MyQuotes

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

I 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.

I 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!

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

'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.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

One 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.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

You 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.