Quotes by Lecturers - Page 4

Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.
Josh Billings
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
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
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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