Ralph Waldo Emerson on Life
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Help
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 on Inspirational
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Greatness / Great Things
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Friendship
He who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall meet him everywhere."
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Education
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Beauty
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Experience
The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Effort
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Conformity / Nonconformity
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.