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.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Life Quotes

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions

Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden...

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden...

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Fear always springs from ignorance

Fear always springs from ignorance

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some...

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some...

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world...

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world...

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go...

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go...

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with...

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with...

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious...

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious...

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Live or die, But don't poison everything.

Live or die, But don't poison everything.

Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your...

Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your...

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and...

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and...

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.