Frances E. Willard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Wheels
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Mastery #Gains #Succeed
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Inspirational #Motivational #Momentum
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Abstinence #Moderation #Foul
Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Horse #Swiftness #Invention
If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Grace #Should #Bicycle
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Moving #Law #Progress
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Fashion #Speed #Stage
We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Children #Past #Imperfection
Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Believe #Thinking #Circles
Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone waiting for a place and helps to open a new vocation for herself and other women.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Teacher #Teaching #Two
The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere ... In these days when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of two hearts in counsel, both of which are feminine.
-- Frances E. Willard

#Heart #Two #Support

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