More - Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Confidence

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Affection

This time,like all times, is a good time, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Mind

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

 Editor's Pick inspirational Life Quote of the Day

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Choice

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Quotations

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Self-improvement

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Adventure

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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