Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. W
  4. Willa Cather
  5. Inspirational

Willa Cather Quotes about Inspirational

All Willa Cather Quotes Age Art Attitude Character Children Country Desire Earth Feelings Giving Hate Heart Imagination Inspirational quotes Life Love Lying Memories Moon Nature Past Prayer Quality Reality Running Soul Spring Summer Talent Water Wife Winter Writing Youth
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather
Inspirational, Summer, Nature
Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

Willa Cather
Inspirational, Kindness, People
My Mortal Enemy pt. 1, ch. 6 (1926)

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Willa Cather
Inspirational, Life, Achievement
Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.30, U of Nebraska Press

You May Also Like: