Here are some thoughtful Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes that can lift you up when you need a boost.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25th 1803, to Reverand. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister in a long line of ministers.
If you can believe it, Emerson's father was concerened that he copuld not read well enough when he was only 3 years old.
However, at the age of 14, Emerson entered Harvard University, eveidence that he apparently solved his reading problem. He graduated from Harvard at the young age of only 18.
Enjoy these Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes:
"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it."
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be."
"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power."
"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."
"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth."
"Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise."
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
