“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
Author
Ralph Waldo Emerson
138 quotes
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in raising up every time we fail.”
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
“The first wealth is health.”
“Our best thoughts come from others.”
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
“The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”
“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.”
“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.”
“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”
“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”