Quotes from Frances E. Willard

God is action - let us be like God.

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Sow and act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap destiny.