Ralph Waldo Emerson citations

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“Qu’est-ce qu’une herbe? Une plante dont les vertus n’ont pas encore été découvertes […].”

“Le premier secret du succès est la confiance en soi, la conviction que si vous êtes là, c’est que les pouvoirs de l’Univers vous y ont mis avec un motif, une tâche qui vous est strictement assignée de par votre constitution, et qu’aussi longtemps que vous y travaillerez, vous vous trouverez bien et réussirez.”

“Chaque minute que vous êtes en colère, vous perdez soixante secondes de bonheur.”

“Construisez donc votre propre monde.”

“Écrivez dans votre cœur que chaque jour est le meilleur jour de l'année.”

“There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.”

“Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.”

“If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.”

“In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.”

“Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill!”

“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”

“Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.”

“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.”

“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

“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 earth laughs in flowers.”

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

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

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”

“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

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

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

“Make the most of yourself…. for that is all there is of you.”

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”