Ella Wheeler Wilcox Inspirational Quotations

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.

Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.

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!

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.

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

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.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.