Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Positive
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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If we live truly, we shall see truly.
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If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
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Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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