Create Yours

Top 20 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes (2025 Update)

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “The woman’s personal identity is a vast undiscovered country – with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.”

1. “The woman’s personal identity is a vast undiscovered country – with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “Imagination is built upon knowledge.”

4. “Imagination is built upon knowledge.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.”

5. “I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “Life is moral responsibility.”

7. “Life is moral responsibility.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.”

8. “Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?”

10. “Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.”

11. “The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.”

12. “I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.”

13. “What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “Truth, like climate, is common property.”

14. “Truth, like climate, is common property.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.”

15. “Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “Death is not the worst sorrow.”

16. “Death is not the worst sorrow.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.”

17. “It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.”

18. “It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “A literary woman’s best critic is her husband...”

21. “A literary woman’s best critic is her husband...”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 20 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.