Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Children are all foreigners.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Give all to love.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self, this is to have succeeded.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
All mankind love a lover.
Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say.
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so, but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
The secret of education lies in respecting the student.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.