Top 150 Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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2. “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

4. “Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

5. “Don’t look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

6. “The art of being kind is all the world needs.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

7. “A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

8. “So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

9. “I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results – or ill.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

10. “Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

11. “A weed is but an unloved flower.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

12. “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.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

13. “The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

14. “Just a little every day That’s the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

15. “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.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

16. “One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It’s the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

17. “I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

18. “There is no language that love does not speak.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

19. “I Love your lips when they’re wet with wine and red with wicked desire.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

20. “All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

21. “The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

22. “Trust in your own untried capacity.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

23. “Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

24. “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

25. “Keep out of the past. It is haunted.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

26. “I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world’s ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

27. “There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

28. “It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden’s weight Until it has been on his back.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

29. “Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

30. “The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

31. “The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

32. “There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

33. “Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

34. “The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

35. “It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

36. “India – The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

37. “Change is the watchword of progression.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

38. “Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

39. “I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

40. “Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer’s interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

41. “All roads that lead to God are good.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

42. “I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

43. “There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

44. “No question is ever settled until it is settled right.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

45. “Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

47. “One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain...”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

48. “Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

49. “Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

50. “Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox