Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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
Topics: Goals

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Topics: Grief, Grieving

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
Topics: Concentration

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
Topics: Happiness

The consciousness of clean linen is, in, and of itself, a source of moral strength, second only to that of a clean conscience.—A well-ironed collar or a fresh glove has carried many a man through an emergency in which a wrinkle or a rip would have defeated him.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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