Action Quotes

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Napoleon Hill

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.

- Stephen Covey 

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

- ‎Frances Willard 

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

- Hannah Arendt 

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill 

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Napoleon Hill 

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

- Stevie Wonder 

‎Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

- Wim Wenders 

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.

- Mark Twain 

Action is eloquence.

- William Shakespeare 

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

- Aristotle 

Think globally, act locally.

- Rene Dubos 

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

- Audre Lorde 

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

- Napoleon Hill 

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt 

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

- Buddha 

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt 

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

- Immanuel Kant 

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

- Madame de Stael 

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh 

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus 

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Abraham Lincoln 

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

- Buddha 

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

- Abraham Maslow 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy 

Great talent finds happiness in execution.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them.

- Barack Obama 

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt 

The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough...we must live them!

- High Eagle 

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Orison Swett Marden 

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt 

There are no gains without pains.

- Benjamin Franklin 

Action Quotes

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Napoleon Hill

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.

- Stephen Covey 

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

- ‎Frances Willard 

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

- Hannah Arendt 

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Martin Luther King, Jr. 

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill 

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Napoleon Hill 

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

- Stevie Wonder 

‎Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

- Wim Wenders 

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.

- Mark Twain 

Action is eloquence.

- William Shakespeare 

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.

- Aristotle 

Think globally, act locally.

- Rene Dubos 

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

- Audre Lorde 

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

- Napoleon Hill 

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

- Eleanor Roosevelt 

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

- Buddha 

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt 

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

- Immanuel Kant 

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

- Madame de Stael 

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh 

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus 

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Abraham Lincoln 

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

- Buddha 

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

- Abraham Maslow 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi 

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy 

Great talent finds happiness in execution.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them.

- Barack Obama 

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt 

The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough...we must live them!

- High Eagle 

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Orison Swett Marden 

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt 

There are no gains without pains.

- Benjamin Franklin 

Vision Quotes

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter 

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so foaming, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

- Soren Kierkegaard 

Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.

- Louis D. Brandeis 

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

- Carl Jung 

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie 

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

- Martha Graham 

One of the most powerful, and deeply spiritual, ways to work for social change is for us to take action in the present that embodies -- right now! -- the future vision that we seek

- Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow 

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

- Peace Pilgrim 

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

- George Washington Carve

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

- Albert Einstein 

In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.

- High Eagle 

You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?' The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing.' What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river. [The Book of the Vision Quest]

- Steven Foster 

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer 

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

- Donald Williams 

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

- Audre Lorde 

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

- Helen Keller 

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

- Kalidasa 

Vision Quotes

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter 

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so foaming, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

- Soren Kierkegaard 

Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.

- Louis D. Brandeis 

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

- Carl Jung 

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie 

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

- Martha Graham 

One of the most powerful, and deeply spiritual, ways to work for social change is for us to take action in the present that embodies -- right now! -- the future vision that we seek

- Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow 

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

- Peace Pilgrim 

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

- George Washington Carve

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

- Albert Einstein 

In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could a vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.

- High Eagle 

You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?' The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing.' What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river. [The Book of the Vision Quest]

- Steven Foster 

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

- Arthur Schopenhauer 

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.

- Donald Williams 

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

- Audre Lorde 

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

- Helen Keller 

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

- Kalidasa 

Achievement Quotes

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill 

You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.

- Amelia Earhart 

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

- Grenville Kleiser 

Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

- Zig Ziglar 

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- William Jennings Bryan 

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

- Betty Ford 

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

- Benjamin Franklin 

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

- Ken Venturi 

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

- Mia Hamm 

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

- Mia Hamm 

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

- Vincent van Gogh 

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh 

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller 

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

- Mabel Newcomber 

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

- Helen Hayes 

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Orison Swett Marden 

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

- Francis Bacon 

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

- Elizabeth Dole 

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt 

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

- Bernadette Devlin 

To fly, we have to have resistance.

- Maya Lin

Achievement Quotes

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill 

You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.

- Amelia Earhart 

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.

- Grenville Kleiser 

Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

- Zig Ziglar 

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- William Jennings Bryan 

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

- Betty Ford 

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

- Benjamin Franklin 

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

- Ken Venturi 

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

- Mia Hamm 

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

- Mia Hamm 

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

- Vincent van Gogh 

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent van Gogh 

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller 

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

- Mabel Newcomber 

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

- Helen Hayes 

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Orison Swett Marden 

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

- Francis Bacon 

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

- Elizabeth Dole 

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt 

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

- Bernadette Devlin 

To fly, we have to have resistance.

- Maya Lin

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

To be great is to be misunderstood.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

To be great is to be misunderstood.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satelite instead of a system.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson