Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

It was never easy, but I always tried my best and kept complaints out of my heart by holding tightly onto the hope that one day, I would read and write.

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

You've got keep your head up, keep fighting, and do the best you can.

The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.

I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

I always wanted to be a winner, to score goals. There was no massive bravery in terms of my mum passing away and stepping up. I just wanted to score. I know everyone would have given me a pass on it if I hadn't taken it. But I'd have had the hump with myself if I'd shirked it.

Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.

I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.

For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

Don't give up, courage is my conviction.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.