Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Self Reliance
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.
But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.