If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Time goes by fast, and people go in and out of your life so quickly, so you should never miss the opportunity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their… — 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
Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be… — 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
