Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Thus we do not carry a counsel in our breasts, or do not know it; and because we cannot shake off from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Prayer that craves a particular commodity, -- anything less than all good, -- is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The years in your life are less important than the life in your years. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sexton, tolling his bell at noon, Deems not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists withdelight, Whilst his files sweep… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
