Ralph Waldo Emerson on Art / Music
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Sports & Competition
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Sports & Competition
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Sports & Competition
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Sports & Competition
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Life
There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Life
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Life
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Life
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Leadership
People only see what they are prepared to see.