Ralph Waldo Emerson on Strength Quotes

"Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men."

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

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

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

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."

"He is rich who owns the day."

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

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

"The ancestor of every action is a thought."

"Insist on yourself; never imitate."

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

"The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."

"People only see what they are prepared to see."

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

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."

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

"Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess today the mood, the yet unheard experience, the advent, tomorrow, that shall build the wall of the world."

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

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."

"The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

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

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

"The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

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

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

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

"Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit; too late he learns that it is the property of the soul."

"Knowledge is the antidote to fear."

"The hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

"Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions."

"Whatever you do, you need courage."