Self Reliance Quotes

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:life truth honesty

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, —that is genius.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:truth

“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:time virtue past

“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:self

“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.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:self travel

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:self peace

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:self others

“As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:religion belief mind will

“Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:good right

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:education ignorance

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