The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"When you were born you were crying & everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your'e the one who is smiling & everyone else is crying"
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"We are wiser than we know."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
-- Henry David Thoreau

 

"In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure." -Malcolm X

 

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
-- Josh Billings

 

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
-- Robert Frost

 

"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)" Ambrose Bierce

 

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"The ancestor of every action is a thought" Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going"
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. " Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson