Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A weed is but an unloved flower.Collection: Gardening
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.Collection: Sad
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.Collection: Men
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Work
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.Collection: Wisdom
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.Collection: Chance
'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.Collection: Men
No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.Collection: Art
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.Collection: Smile
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.Collection: Friendship
A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
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.
The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.
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.
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.
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 lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
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.
Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.
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!
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.
Earth is the anteroom of Heaven, if we choose to see it so.
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.Collection: Life
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.Collection: Leadership
There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.Collection: Relationship
The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.Collection: Two
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.Collection: Inspiring
Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .Collection: Kindness
Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss The purpose of this life, and do not wait For circumstance to mould or change your fate.Collection: Motivational
Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.Collection: Love
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.Collection: Life
All the past is not worth one today.Collection: Past
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.Collection: Self
Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.Collection: Wise
There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.Collection: Motivational
A poor original is better than a good imitation.Collection: Originality
We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.Collection: Regret
Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise - But for the man to be.Collection: Country
You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.Collection: Inspirational
How happy they are, in all seeming, How gay, or how smilingly proud, How brightly their faces are beaming, These people who make up the crowd!Collection: Inspirational
Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light.Collection: Inspirational
Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you dieCollection: Men
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.Collection: Lost
Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"Collection: Wise
Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.Collection: Wise