For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Change Quotes, Compromise Quotes, Failure Quotes, Life Quotes

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

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

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

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and...

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and...

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path...

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best...

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best...

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals....

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals....

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind...

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind...

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when...

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when...

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and...

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and...

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it...

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it...

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.