Quotes by Lecturers - Page 7

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
Josh Billings
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes
For everything you have missed you have gained something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours if you can appreciate yourself.
Dale Carnegie
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Josh Billings
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
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
Nature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it.
Josh Billings
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever limits us we call Fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.
Josh Billings
AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give all to love obey thy heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion soars above this dull earth that imagination breaks through its clouds breathes a purer air and lives in a softer light.
Henry Giles
Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
Josh Billings
If it wasn't for faith there would be no living in this world we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.
Josh Billings
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A believer a mind whose faith is consciousness is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits on his manhood he has gained the facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.
Josh Billings
The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man has good corn or wood or boards or pigs to sell or can make better chairs or knives crucibles or church organs than anybody else you will find a broad hardbeaten road to his house though it be in the woods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.
Josh Billings
When fate hands you a lemon make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vigor is contagious and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pay the School Master but 'tis the school boys that educate my son.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not live an equal life but one of contrasts and patchwork now a little joy then a sorrow now a sin then a generous or brave action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a man thinketh so is he and as a man chooseth so is he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choices are the hinges of destiny.
Edwin Markham