Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes


"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."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Death, Life, Love, Time, Man, Will, Woman)

"The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: God, Progress, Chaos, Discontent, Man, World)

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Wisdom, Greatness, Being, Lies, Mind)

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Soul, Control, Chance, Destiny, Fate)

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Life, Man, Smile, Song, Will, Worth, Wrong)

"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."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Men)

"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Deed, Harvest, May)

"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."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Art, Heart, May, Word, Words)

"The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Life, Goal)

"So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Art, Gods, Being, Needs, Wind, World)

"Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Soul, Glory, May, Windows, World)

"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."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Force, Pen, Tongue, Word)

"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."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Success, Grace, Memory)

"And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Earth, Smile, Tears, Worth)

"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."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Power, Work, First)

"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Friendship, Love)

"A weed is but an unloved flower."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Results)

"The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Related: Faith, Life, Vision, Man)