Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONPeace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONYou become what you think about all day long.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONGuard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEnvy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONNone of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONShallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONOnce you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWe acquire the strength we have overcome.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLet us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONTo know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWhoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWithout ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON