America is another name for opportunity.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: America And Americans Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too...

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead...

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task...

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task...

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without...

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without...

Men are what their mothers made them

Men are what their mothers made them

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The years teach much which the days never know.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Skepticism is slow suicide

Skepticism is slow suicide

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel...

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel...

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for...

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for...

There is always safety in valor.

There is always safety in valor.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats

All promise outruns performance.

All promise outruns performance.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing

Never promise more than you can perform.

Never promise more than you can perform.