Self Reliance Quotes

“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

“All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:society

“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:society

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:society loneliness independence

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:work peace

“Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:virtue

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:foolishness mind philosophy

“Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:foolishness travel

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

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:mind

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

topic:greatness

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