Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.