“A great man is always willing to be little.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What you are comes to you.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All diseases run into one, old age.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All mankind love a lover.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Earth laughs in flowers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Money often costs too much.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reality is a sliding door.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The first wealth is health.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson