Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach famous quotes

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Grace #Outcomes #Inward

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Friendship #Demand #Honest

We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Real #Taken #Enough

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Perfect #Generosity #Should

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Imaginary

Conquer, but don't triumph.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Success #Triumph #Conquer

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Enemy #Privilege

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Wise #Wisdom #Understanding

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Men #Vanity

Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Blessed #Giving #Bless

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Enemy #Slave

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Self #Self Control

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Art #Temples #Workshops

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Form #Calmness

Those whom we support hold us up in life.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Support

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Tree #Young #Thistles

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Love #Husband #Nun

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Balance #Littles #Impossible

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#May #Prejudice #Opinion

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Firsts #Immortality #Achieve

One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Order #World

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#People #Looks #Faults

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Heart #Thinking #Nerves

There is only one proof of ability - action.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Action #Proof #Ability

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Trust #Beautiful #Liars

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Time #Thinking #Vanity

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Teacher #Pain #Soul

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Patience #Endurance

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Pride #Victory #Defeat

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Dream #Fulfilled

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Beautiful #Illusion

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Opportunity #Encounters

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Wise #Wisdom #Goodness

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Disrespect #Good Man #World

Age either transfigures or petrifies.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Age

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Kindness #Names #Doe

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Patience #Waiting

Genius points the way, talent takes it.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Way #Genius #Talent

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Inspirational