It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it.…

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Age Quotes

Money often costs too much.

Money often costs too much.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he...

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he...

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

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...

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

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

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood...

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood...

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Every wall is a door.

Every wall is a door.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because...

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The best part of health is fine disposition

The best part of health is fine disposition

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him...

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to...

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.