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Top 30 Eleanor H. Porter Quotes (2025 Update)

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”

1. “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “Just breathing isn’t living!”

2. “Just breathing isn’t living!”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about – no matter what ’twas.”

3. “Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about – no matter what ’twas.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good – you will get that...”

4. “When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good – you will get that...”

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Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “My relationship with “Pollyanna” is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.”

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

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.”

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

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “I love different folks.”

8. “I love different folks.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “It isn’t given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.”

9. “It isn’t given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven’t left me any time at all just to- to live.”

10. “Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven’t left me any time at all just to- to live.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “But you only have to live one minute at a time, Ruth, and any one can endure anything for one minute at a time!”

11. “But you only have to live one minute at a time, Ruth, and any one can endure anything for one minute at a time!”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “You see, when you’re hunting for the glad things, you sort of forget the other kind – like.”

12. “You see, when you’re hunting for the glad things, you sort of forget the other kind – like.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “In fact, I know that a ‘nice live little boy’ would be far better than – my skeleton in the closet; only – we aren’t always willing to make the exchange. We are apt to still cling to – our skeletons, Pollyanna.”

13. “In fact, I know that a ‘nice live little boy’ would be far better than – my skeleton in the closet; only – we aren’t always willing to make the exchange. We are apt to still cling to – our skeletons, Pollyanna.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.”

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

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Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “It’ll be just lovely for you to play – it’ll be so hard. And there’s so much more fun when it is hard!”

16. “It’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 H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “Oh, of course I’d be BREATHING all the time I was doing those things, Aunt Polly, but I wouldn’t be living. You breathe all the time you’re asleep, but you aren’t living. I mean living – doing the things.”

17. “Oh, of course I’d be BREATHING all the time I was doing those things, Aunt Polly, but I wouldn’t be living. You breathe all the time you’re asleep, but you aren’t living. I mean living – doing the things.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “Of course things you don’t know about are always nicer’n things you do, same as the pertater on ’tother side of the plate is always the biggest.”

18. “Of course things you don’t know about are always nicer’n things you do, same as the pertater on ’tother side of the plate is always the biggest.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “Why, it would be such fun,′ he chuckled, ’to just forget all about the hours when the sun didn’t shine, and remember only the nice, pleasant ones.”

19. “Why, it would be such fun,′ he chuckled, ’to just forget all about the hours when the sun didn’t shine, and remember only the nice, pleasant ones.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “It’s funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn’t it?”

20. “It’s funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn’t it?”

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Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “I tell you, troubles are poor things to hug. They’ve got to many pickers.”

22. “I tell you, troubles are poor things to hug. They’ve got to many pickers.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “Father says that I’m one little instrument in the great Orchestra of Life, and that I must see to it that I’m always in tune, and don’t drag or hit false notes.”

23. “Father says that I’m one little instrument in the great Orchestra of Life, and that I must see to it that I’m always in tune, and don’t drag or hit false notes.”

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Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “The instrument that you play on, Pollyanna, will be the great heart of the world; and to me that seems the most wonderful instrument of all – to learn. Under your touch, if you are skilful, it will respond with smiles or tears, as you will.”

24. “The instrument that you play on, Pollyanna, will be the great heart of the world; and to me that seems the most wonderful instrument of all – to learn. Under your touch, if you are skilful, it will respond with smiles or tears, as you will.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “It’s a bother, of course, when folks do want you all the time, isn’t it? – ’cause you can’t have yourself when you want yourself, lots of times. Still, you can be kind of glad for that, for it IS nice to be wanted, isn’t it?”

25. “It’s a bother, of course, when folks do want you all the time, isn’t it? – ’cause you can’t have yourself when you want yourself, lots of times. Still, you can be kind of glad for that, for it IS nice to be wanted, isn’t it?”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “Into the eyes of those she met Pollyanna smiled joyously. She was disappointed – but not surprised – that she received no answering smile in return. She was used to that now – in Boston. She still smiled, however, hopefully: there might be some one, sometime, who would smile back.”

26. “Into the eyes of those she met Pollyanna smiled joyously. She was disappointed – but not surprised – that she received no answering smile in return. She was used to that now – in Boston. She still smiled, however, hopefully: there might be some one, sometime, who would smile back.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “I know, father-among-the-angels, I’m not playing the game one bit now – not one bit; but I don’t believe even you could find anything to be glad about sleeping all alone ‘way off up here in the dark – like this. If only I was near Nancy or Aunt Polly, or even a Ladies’ Aider, it would be easier!” Down-stairs.”

27. “I know, father-among-the-angels, I’m not playing the game one bit now – not one bit; but I don’t believe even you could find anything to be glad about sleeping all alone ‘way off up here in the dark – like this. If only I was near Nancy or Aunt Polly, or even a Ladies’ Aider, it would be easier!” Down-stairs.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “In his imagination he was far away in a little Western town with a missionary minister who was poor, sick, worried, and almost alone in the world – but who was poring over the Bible to find how many times his Lord and Master had told him to “rejoice and be glad.”

28. “In his imagination he was far away in a little Western town with a missionary minister who was poor, sick, worried, and almost alone in the world – but who was poring over the Bible to find how many times his Lord and Master had told him to “rejoice and be glad.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “And EVERYBODY says he’s mysterious,” she went on. “Some years he jest travels, week in and week out, and it’s always in heathen countries – Egypt and Asia and the Desert of Sarah, you know.”

29. “And EVERYBODY says he’s mysterious,” she went on. “Some years he jest travels, week in and week out, and it’s always in heathen countries – Egypt and Asia and the Desert of Sarah, you know.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?”

30. “You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “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. And father felt ashamed that he hadn’t done it more. After that, they got to be such a comfort to him, you know, when things went wrong;.”

31. “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. And father felt ashamed that he hadn’t done it more. After that, they got to be such a comfort to him, you know, when things went wrong;.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor H. Porter Quote: “Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart.”

32. “Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

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