Doom Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doom Hopeless Imitator Mediocrity
He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never… — Frederic Tudor Copy Share Image
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When the fear of failure triumphs over the repugnance of mediocrity, we must resign ourselves to the status quo. Every change, every opportunity to… — D.A. Blankinship Copy Share Image
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The meditator’s intention is to purge her own mind of anger, prejudice, and ill will, and she is actively engaged in the process of… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself. — Soren Kierkegaard 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
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
