Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Motivation
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Life is a festival only to the wise.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
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The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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The world belongs to the energetic.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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Fractures well cured make us more strong.
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
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Children are all foreigners.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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