Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”

“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

“Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.”

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.”

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“All mankind love a lover.”

“Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.”

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”