Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his… — 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
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a… — 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