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Quotes by "Elizabeth Stuart Phelps"

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Tags: goals
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
Tags: time
Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps The Story of Avis
Tags: woman, success, sacrifice, labor
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Tags: ideas, ignorance, world, great
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
Tags: look, power, dress, life
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