Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Those that have done nothing in life are not qualified to judge those that have done little.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

When you get haters you actually feel like you're a success.

If you don't have haters, you're doing something wrong.

The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.

To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

It's not an overnight thing. I can legitimately say I've been working my ass off for a long time and the fact that I'm getting this concert movie is perfect because it's coming at just the right time in my life.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.