Quotes by Lecturers - Page 5

Who loses a day loses life.
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
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
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
Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
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
Poverty Frost Famine Rain Disease are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oft when the white still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart I have felt it like a glory in my heart.
Edwin Markham
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.
Josh Billings
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall we judge a country by the majority or by the minority? By the minority surely.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged from the beginning of the world that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes
When ill luck besets us to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?
Dale Carnegie
If you want to be happy set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy get enthusiastic about something.
Dale Carnegie
Many people think that if they were only in some other place or had some other job they would be happy. Well that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope.
Josh Billings
My advice to those who are about to begin in earnest the journey of life is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
Josh Billings
The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man own land the land owns him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
Josh Billings
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.
Josh Billings
If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson