Elsie Lincoln Benedict Quotes

United States, Orator
1885 – 1970.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict was advertised as the best known women's speaker during the 1920s, speaking to over 3 million people in her lifetime and writing on what Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie and a long list of men would do later. She was an American suffragist leader representing the State of Colorado for the Women's Right to Vote. She promoted the law of attraction through her many worldwide lectures.

Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak. Love isn't enough; there must also be understanding.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict
- Love
- Choosing
- Bicycle
Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict
- Power
- Human
- Electricity

In other words, more than seventy per cent of American divorces are granted because husbands and wives can not adapt themselves to each other in the matter of how they shall spend their LEISURE hours.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict
- Matter
- Adapt
- Husbands
Poverty does more to bring out the worst in people and conceal the best than anything else in the world.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict
When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window" is a saying as old as it is sad.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict
- Love
- Poverty
- Flies
Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict