The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Life Quotes

Every artist was first an amateur.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say...

Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

Men are what their mothers made them

Men are what their mothers made them

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path...

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path...

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they...

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they...

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination

Wherever there is power there is age.

Wherever there is power there is age.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence

That man is idle who can do something better

That man is idle who can do something better

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so...

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so...

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the...

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the...

I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to...

I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to...