Timeless Wisdom – Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

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.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

It is not the length of life, but depth of 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.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children… to leave the world a better place… to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Timeless Wisdom – Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson part 2

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

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.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

The earth laughs in flowers.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.