Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Skill to do comes of doing.

No dissenter rides in his coach for three generations; he infallibly falls into the Establishment.

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

It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.