Ralph Waldo Emerson

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.

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

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

He who praises every body, praises nobody.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.