Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do… Build, therefore, your own world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
