Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Life #Motivational #Time
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Powerful #Law #Denial
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#World #Impossible #Dignity
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Voice #Dresses #Looks
Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Grateful #Enough #Habit
Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Law #Dresses #Attention
The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Mean #Night
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is comedy, it is psychical and physical pleasure, it is the interplay of a thousand rude or delicate motions and emotions, it is the grimmest and the merriest motley of phantasmagoria that could appeal to the gravest or the maddest brush ever put to palette; but it is steadily and sturdily and always moral responsibility.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Responsibility #Rude #Joy
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Ignorance #Ideas #Needs
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Running #Weed #Character
Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.
-- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

#Music #Air #Purity

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