•“Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Self trust is the essence of heroism.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“God enters by a private door into every individual.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.” 
― Maya Angelou

•“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius. ” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your hear that every day is the best day of the year.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Life is a journey, not a destination.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson