Life Quotes Quote by Ralph Emerson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“Our distrust is very expensive.”

“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.”

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

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

“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”

“If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.”

“A woman laughing is a woman conquered.”

“Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.”

“I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.”