Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blowTo those who love us best.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

Day's sweetest moments are at dawn.

The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high. But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river; And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.

It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.

The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.

Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.