ZZ Ward Quotes

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

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.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

Life is moral responsibility.

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.

It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

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.

Make sure you want it enough.

Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. Thats probably one reason I became an actor.

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

I like to spread myself out. Since I was a kid, I always recognized some void.

I realize you cant please everyone.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me.

I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.

I have a very, very creative family.

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely take on wacky characters.

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.

The momma bears are demanding, 'Protect our kids.'

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.