Quotes by Ralph Emerson

"Skill to do comes of doing."

"The years teach much which the days never know."

"Our distrust is very expensive."

"Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose."

"Life is a progress, and not a station."

"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going."

"Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."

"Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."

"Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."

"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."

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

"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore."

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Self-trust is the first secret of success."

"Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue."

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."