Ralph Waldo Emerson
be yourself
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
behind, before and within us
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
don't remember books or meals, but they have made me
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
mind stretched by new idea
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
reward well done
"The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
path leave trail
"Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
do afraid
“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
do speak loudly hear say
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
purpose life happy useful honorable compassionate difference
“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.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
life live length depth
“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
great achievment enthusiasm
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
sacred integrity mind
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
scream thesis
“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
yourself world else accomplishment
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
do beyond mastering grow
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
grow old age
"We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
years life age old
"The years in your life
are less important
than the life in your years."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
conformist richness independent thinking
"When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
house walls beams home love dreams
"A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
best way do everything
"There is always a best way of doing everything."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
person destiny decide
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
wise excess wisdom fool
"The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
end human race die civilization
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
nation fail suicide
"A nation never falls but by suicide."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
education imitation suicide
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that ... imitation is suicide."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
postpone remember live present
"Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.
—"Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)