Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. 
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. 
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn 
The only way to have a friend is to be one. 
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. 
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. 
A great man is always willing to be little. 
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson Life quotes ⇑
Life Quotes
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. 
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. 
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. 
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. 
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspirational quotes ⇑
Inspirational Quotes
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. 
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. 
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. 
Every artist was first an amateur. 
You become what you think about all day long. 
Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson Short quotes ⇑
Short Quotes
Nothing external to you has any power over you. 
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. 
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. All Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes ⇑
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
To be great is to be misunderstood.