Favorite quotes

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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

 

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Be silly. Be honest. Be kind."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not." Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson