Quotes by Hortense Odlum

• One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
• No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.
• It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.
• It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.
• If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.
• How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!