Quotes by Lecturers - Page 3

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are poets at heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors Landor replies "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings
The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
Josh Billings
Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Josh Billings
The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace but a canting impotence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To bring up a child in the way he should go travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich who want something more that of the sick who want something different and that of the traveler who says "Anywhere but here."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The surest poison is time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A day is a miniature eternity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live in day-tight compartments.
Dale Carnegie
People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end. ... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
Ken Keyes
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To fill the hour that is happiness to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king rich man fairy or demon who possesses such power as that.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who loses a day loses life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is saturated with deity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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