Explore Quotes by Amelia Barr

Kindness is always fashionable.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

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.

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.