Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Life Quotes

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

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

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Revolutions go not backward.

Revolutions go not backward.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke...

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke...

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth...

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth...

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are...

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are...

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so...

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so...

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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...

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will...

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will...

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

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...

At the end of the day, violence never really solves any problem...it just creates new...

At the end of the day, violence never really solves any problem...it just creates new...

The way we see the problem is the problem

The way we see the problem is the problem