Ralph Waldo Emerson Short Quotes

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness

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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change is inevitable... Growth is optional.

- John C. Maxwell

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

- Franklin Roosevelt

Nobody dies a virgin. Life fucks us all.

- Kurt Cobain

Don’t lie to me unless you’re absolutely sure that I will never find the truth.

- Anonymous

Never lie to the person you love. Its not worth it and they don’t deserve it.

- Anonymous

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- C. H. Parkhurst

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

A leader is a dealer in hope.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

- Seneca

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

- John Lennon