Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes On Life, Friendship, Success

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

You become what you think about all day long.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

People only see what they are prepared to see.