All promise outruns performance.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Commitment Quotes

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a...

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a...

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which...

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which...

Love and you shall be loved.

Love and you shall be loved.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to...

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate...

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string

There is always safety in valor.

There is always safety in valor.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with...

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with...

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Our Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one left its print on a soil alien tot...

Our Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one left its print on a soil alien tot...

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a...

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a...