Archive for January, 2008
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
Don’t be too timid squeamish about your actions.All life is an experiment.The more experiments you make the better.
Be not the slave of your own past.Plunge into the sublime seas,dive deep and swim far,so you shall come back with self-respect,with new power,with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Don’t waste yourself in rejection,nor bark against the bad,but chant the beauty of the good.
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.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
If I have lost confidence in myself,I have the universe against me.
Insist on yourself; never imitate… Every great man is unique.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Shallow men believe in luck.Strong men believe in cause and effect.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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.
Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.