Doom Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may…

— Og Mandino

Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough…

— Julie Powell

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

an imitator is always a poor example.

— Marion Davies

The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is…

— Soren Kierkegaard

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

— William James

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think…

— Rachilde

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars…

— Samuel Johnson