Quotes by Lecturers - Page 2

The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow makes us all children again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are some men above grief and some men below it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
Henry Giles
We never touch but at points.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end fastens itself around your own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.
Josh Billings
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discontent is want of self-discipline it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.
Josh Billings
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell
Self-command is the main elegance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.
Josh Billings
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
Joseph Campbell
Ah if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No sensible person ever made an apology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man without lowering him in his estimation and yours too.
Josh Billings
There is a crack in everything God has made.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings
Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride ruined the angels.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit and not give the bread of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.
Dale Carnegie
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a method a progressive arrangement a selecting principle gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are people who have an appetite for grief pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson