“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
40 quotes in the MindQuotes library.
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“Every man is an impossibility until he is born. ~”
“The world makes way for a man who knows where he is going.”
“Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusi- asm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.”
“Beware when God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
“All mankind love a lover.”
“Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”
“No man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood. Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
“Of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.”
“Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”
“Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.”