Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Adopt the pace of nature.

Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.