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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall...

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Famous Quotes on: Courage, Growth




A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Rich




And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Individuality, God




Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom




Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Famous Quotes on: Action, Focus




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

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Inspirational Quotes on: Courage, Individuality




Envy is ignorance. Imitation is suicide.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Individuality




God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Risk, God




Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed!

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Famous Quotes on: Action, Dream




He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Friend




If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Motivational Quotes on: Confidence




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.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Development Quotes on: Confidence




It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Famous Quotes on: Love, Life




No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this. The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Inspirational Quotes on: Love




Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Motivational Quotes on: Energy, Achieve




Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your mind.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude, Integrity




Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Famous Quotes on: Courage, Challenges




People only see what they are prepared to see.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Inspirational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, People




People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, People




Speak what you think today in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage






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~ Harry Truman
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