Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes On Life, Friendship, Success

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

There is always safety in valor.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Men are what their mothers made them.