Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American poet and journalist, 1850-1919
10 quotes.
Quotes by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- A poor original is better than a good imitation.
- All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
- No; the two kinds of people on earth I mean Are the people who lift, and the people who lean.
- One ship drives east and another drives west, With the self-same winds that blow, ’Tis the set of the sails And not the gales That tell them the way to go. Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate, As we voyage along through life, ’Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
- Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go; They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe.
- The art of being kind is all the world needs.
- There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
- 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.
- With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.
- With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays—there let them sleep, Nor seek to summon back one ghost Of that innumerable host.