Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
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.
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.
Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Men are what their mothers made them.