Great men, great nations have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure, Wisdom
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subject: Personal Improvement
Solitude is to genius the stern friend. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from traveling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Leadership, Life & Society
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life … [ Read more ]
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Success / Failure
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Life & Society, Perception | Observation
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Success / Failure
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subject: Education | Scholarship