For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — 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
