Ralph Waldo Emerson on Purpose Quotes

"Insist on yourself; never imitate."

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

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

"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool."

"Life is a progress, and not a station."

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

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

"The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck."

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

"The world makes way for the man who knows whither he is going."

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius."

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

"If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."

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

"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within."

"The soul's emphasis is always right."

"Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven."

"A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world."

"The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness."

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

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