Inspirational Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead,…

— Jane Leavy

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

— Katherine Paterson

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

— Michel de Montaigne

What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.

— Starhawk

No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can.

— Wangari Maathai

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But…

— Gloria Steinem

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we…

— George Chapman

Each of us has a right to name ourselves as we will.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you.

— Jack Hyles

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free…

— Samuel Johnson

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld