Thoughts Of Famous Person's

The only person you are destined  to become is the person you decide to be.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead,  go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every work of genius,  we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us  with a certain alienated majesty. ~ Ralph Wa...

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, an...

“Men are respectable  only as they respect” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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 ...

“Every man alone is sincere.  At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.  We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man ...

“To be yourself in a world  that is constantly trying to make you something else  is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Eme...

“All sorts of things and weather must be taken in together, to make up a year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

“Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What we have learned from others becomes our own reflection.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What we have learned from others becomes our own reflection.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kin...

“Be not the slave of your own past.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson