Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Integrity
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.
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A little integrity is better than any career.
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Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
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Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
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Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.
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Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
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It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.
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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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A man should give us a sense of mass.
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