Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

I believe people are fundamentally good and want to find things that make life better for themselves. There are social dynamics for people that work, and there are ones that are pathological. But beneath every 'no' lays a 'yes' that had never been broken. I put my life-faith in that.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

I believe in humans.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.

You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog­ress are real.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.'

Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

My life has changed for the better. It's just amazing. I have to catch myself sometimes. It's like a dream. It's a great thing.

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.