Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep. Who dare while others fly.They build a nation’s pillars deep. And lift them to the sky.

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

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Be confident, not certain

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do what is right.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.