Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

All mankind love a lover.

Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

No man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Every great man is unique.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood. Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

Knowledge is an antidote to fear.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your promotion.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.

Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying.

You and I can never do a kindness too soon, for we never know how soon it will be too late.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson is life who does not every day surmount a fear.

The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.