Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”

“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.”

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

“Earth laughs in flowers.”

“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.”

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”

“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”

“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”

“With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.”

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

“As soon as there is life there is danger.”

“All mankind love a lover.”

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”

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

“Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.”

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”