39 Quotes by Amelia E. Barr

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Kindness is always fashionable.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Forethought spares afterthought.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Be not too strict – too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.