Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Children are all foreigners.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

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.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

Convert life into truth.