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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Success, Believe

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, World, Algebra

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Nature, Flower
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.292, Harvard University Press

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Coward, Made, Certain

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Leadership, Communication

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Attitude, Hard Times

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Change, Spiritual
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.514, Harvard University Press

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Powerful, Greatness, Use
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rooms, Happy Person, Lit

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivational, Fear, Past
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.181, Harvard University Press

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thinking, People, Research

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.56, Harvard University Press

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creating, Funny Basketball, Originality

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stupid, Power, Men

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Education, Peace
'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Positive
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jobs, World, Sticks

Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful, People, Giving

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend
Essays "Friendship" (1841)

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
People, Hypocrisy, Moral

The years teach much which the days never know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom
'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real, Men, Law

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace, Pleasure, Sincerely
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2367, Delphi Classics

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Real, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.9, Harvard University Press

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Motivational, New Day

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