Quotes

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts:

1) To return love for hate;

2) To include the excluded; and

3) To say 'I was wrong.'


- Ernst Heinrich Haeckel


"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt
the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."
- Pearl S. Buck


Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from
where you started.
- Proverb

Quotes - Ralph Waldo Emerson:


Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.



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




Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.




Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
 


Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.



Every revolution was thought first in one man's mind.





Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.



Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.



He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.



Where ever you go, there you are...


I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.




Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.



Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.




Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. -Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.



MORE: Ralph Waldo Emerson






The ancestor of every action is a thought.





The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.





The key to every man is his thought.







Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.





He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.





The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.






Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.




Tis the good reader that makes the good book.



Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.



We all boil at different degrees.



We do what we must, and call it by the best names.



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



When you strike at a king, you must kill him.



Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.




Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.










Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.



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.