"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.












Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and th...
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, o...
"What is success? To laugh often and much To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children To earn the appreciation of honest c...
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure...
"Self-trust is the first secret of success.
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
"Whatever limits us we call Fate.
"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
"Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own ...
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
"It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose fa...
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.