1583 Total Quotes
Ralph+Waldo Emerson Quotes
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestions, the raw material of possible poems and histories.