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.

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

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

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All diseases run into one, old age.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adopt the pace of nature, Her secret is patience.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson