Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Success
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The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Character is that which can do without success.
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Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.
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As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
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We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.
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The never-ending task of self improvement.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.
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