Ralph Waldo Emerson on Discipline Quotes

"A man is what he thinks about all day long."

"Self-trust is the first secret of success."

"Do the thing and you shall have the power."

"Nature is a discipline."

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs."

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing."

"The good mind chooses what is positive, what is advancing—embraces the affirmative."

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

"Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed by the individual."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

"Power is in nature the essential measure of right."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."

"Insist on yourself; never imitate."

"A great man is always willing to be little."

"The soul's emphasis is always right."

"Character is higher than intellect."

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

"The ancestor of every action is a thought."

"Be not the slave of your own past."

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

"Knowledge is the knowing that we can not know."

"The key to every man is his thought."

"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer."

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"The sum of wisdom is, that the time is never lost that is devoted to work."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could."